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| The stigma and enigma of ECT | | Author(s) | David Wilkinson, Janet Daoud |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 13, no 12, December 1998 |
| Pages | pp 833-835 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Psychiatric treatment ; Research ; Progress reports. |
| Annotation | The Royal College of Psychiatrists in the United Kingdom has adopted the stigma of mental illness as its new campaign. As an integral part of this, the Royal College will have to consider the public perception that ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) is an archaic and barbaric treatment - a view being promulgated on numerous Internet Websites. This editorial reaffirms the profession's confidence in ECT as a treatment. The enigma refers to ECT as being one of the few treatments that are demonstrably so effective that have been so consistently vilified. ECT must be seen as part of a pragmatic approach to the treatment of severe depressive illness: further research is needed not into its efficacy, but into its acceptability. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990209007 A |
| Classmark | ENR: LP: 3A: 6KC |
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