ELECTROSHOCK therapy is the most widely used of the somatic methods for the treatment of mental diseases. It is not the purpose of this investigation to describe the therapeutic result achieved or ...

Trans performance artist Ling'er says she was forced to undergo electroshock treatments at a hospital in China that left her ...

In the late 1930s and 1940s, electroconvulsive therapy took off, its popularity caused by the same factors that led to the acceptance of lobotomy. During World War II, interest in the treatment ...

A 28-year-old trans woman in China has won her lawsuit against the hospital and doctor that subjected her to three months of ...

Sylvie Sallquist has struggled with severe depression and anxiety since she was a child, and this is her latest attempt to ...