Produced by:
KBOO
Program::
Air date:
Mon, 10/03/2011 - 11:30am to 12:00pm
"Doctors of Deception: What They Don't Want You to Know about Shock Treatment."
This week's Madness Radio asks, Why is ECT, electroconvulsive therapy or electroshock, so widely used
today? Is the ECT industry manipulating research and public perceptions the way tobacco companies did about cigarettes? What are the real dangers of this lobotomy-era treatment? ECT survivor Linda Andre discusses her groundbreaking book, "Doctors of Deception: What They Don't Want You to Know about Shock Treatment."