[NYAPRS Enews] New Book Calls for Greater ECT Oversight, Accurate Pt Information, Choice

[Matt Canuteson]

DOCTORS OF DECEPTION

What They Don't Want You to Know about Shock Treatment  by Linda Andre
Rutgers University Press

http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/Doctors_of_Deception.html

 

"For many years, activist and writer Linda Andre has been forcefully and
cogently examining the reigning (and mostly unchallenged) professed
claims and practices of our medical establishment's wizards of shock
therapy. In this thoroughly-researched, pathbreaking, and essential
book, the author undraws the curtains that have for too long cloaked
these claims, practices, and wizards. It is a work of courage, heart,
and brains."

-Jonathan Cott, author of On the Sea of Memory: A Journey from
Forgetting to Remembering

 

Doctors of Deception: What They Don't Want You to Know about Shock
Treatment (Cloth $26.95, 978-0-81354441-0, February 2009) by Linda Andre
is the first history of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), or shock
treatment, to consider the controversial procedure in a social, legal,
financial, medical, and moral context. 

 

Andre carefully intertwines stories of ECT survivors and activists with
legal, ethical, and scientific arguments to address issues of patient
rights and psychiatric treatment. Echoing current debates about the use
of psychopharmaceutical interventions shown to have debilitating side
effects, she candidly presents ECT as a problematic therapy demanding
greater scrutiny, tighter control, and full disclosure about its
long-term cognitive effects.

 

Linda Andre is a writer, activist, and the director of the Committee for
Truth in Psychiatry. Since receiving ECT in the early 1980s, she has
been an advocate for the human and civil rights of psychiatrically
labeled people, particularly the right to truthful informed consent. 

 

Cloth $26.95 | ISBN 978-0-8135-4441-0 | 336 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Publication Date: February 2009





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