Extreme Mental Illness And Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

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19 pages in length. To understand the ongoing controversy surrounding ECT, it is important to gain a working knowledge of the procedure, indications, risks and common misconceptions about this alternative approach to treating severe mental illness that has been in place for a number of decades. The process of ECT has undergone such significant modifications that it hardly resembles what by today's standards is considered archaic application. That contemporary approaches to ECT have wholly metamorphosed - and in some cases exorcised - the negative components once attributed to this controversial therapy lends considerable credibility to recent scientific research that supports it as being viable, safe and humane. Bibliography lists 15 sources.