Dolores Orrico watched her psychiatrist flip a switch and turn a knob. She stared hard as adjustments were made to the machine that’d soon send her into a seizure. She was lying back in a bed on the ...

Today's doctors are struggling to treat psychological problems and despite that, we are still using electroshock — even on children. In 2003, Dr. Loren Mosher and Professor David Cohen wrote a brief ...

One of Kesey’s characters describes an ECT machine and the procedure to the novel’s protagonist Randle McMurphy as “a device that might be said to do the work of the sleeping pill, the electric chair, ...