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Resources

Below are links to the sites of other individuals and organizations with a proven record of supporting ECT survivors and of working for psychiatric reform. Many ECT survivors and their families have found this information useful.

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  • Activist Lauren Tenney’s blog radio show 9-11 EST at Real Life. Real Answers.

General ECT Information & Your Rights

  • LifeAfterShock.com Shock survivor, Jane Rice’s website “to inform people considering ECT of the true risks and provide all the hard-found resources for those already injured so they can make sense of what happened to them and figure out what to do next and bring about awareness and social change.”
  • How Can We Transform Psychiatric Drugging Culture? – A video that relates drugging and ECT.
  • PsychRights.org – The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights) is a non-profit, public interest law firm whose mission is to mount a strategic legal campaign against forced psychiatric drugging and electroshock.
  • Rethinking Psychiatry – A project of the Economic Justice Action Group of the First Unitarian Church.
  • MentalHealthRightsYes – Education, Advocacy, Support and Empowerment for Mental Health Rights and Re-Inventing the Village
  • ISEPP.org – The International Society for Ethical Psychology & Psychiatry
  • CCHR.org – The Citizens Commission on Human Rights is a watchdog investigating & exposing psychiatric human rights violations.
  • PeterBreggin.com  Peter R. Breggin, MD, has been called “The Conscience of Psychiatry” for his many decades of successful efforts to reform the mental health field.  Dr Breggin’s ECT Resources Center contains more than 125 scientific articles.
  • MindFreedom.org – For over 25 years, MindFreedom International has been a non-violent and loving force for CHANGE in the mental health system, with these 3 simple goals in mind:
    • Challenge human rights abuses by the psychiatric industry.
    • Promote safe, humane and effective alternatives in mental health care and self-care.
    • Support the self-determination and right to free, critical thought of ALL human beings (normal or not!)
  • ECT.org – Information about ECT  – pro, con and neutral.
  • EndofShock.com – The Coalition for the Abolition of Electroshock in Texas.
  • MadInAmerica.com – Science, Psychiatry and Community
  • MentalHealthRecovery.com – Wellness Recovery Action Plan and Recovery Books
  • ICBE- International Campaign to Ban Electroshock – The ICBE is working together with other people and groups around the world to help ban ECT universally.
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Welcome

Welcome to the ECT survivors website.

News & Events

  • Don’t swallow everything you’re told as the truth May 22, 2019
  • Failure to speak out against ECT May 17, 2019
  • Family Secrets May 14, 2019
  • Stop Shocking and Torturing Women – Mad in America May 13, 2019
  • Lou Reed: That Which Does Not Kill Us Can Radicalize Us – Mad in America May 6, 2019
  • An open letter to medical professionals April 24, 2019

Pages

  • After care following electroshock
  • Be a Media Spokesperson for ECT Victims
  • Blog
  • Deborah Schwartzkopff on Electroshock
  • Dr. John Breeding Discusses ECT
  • ECT & Children
  • ECT & Informed Consent
  • ECT Destroys Lives
  • ECT Questionnaire
  • ECT Survivor Kenny on Life After Electroshock
  • ECT Survivor Mary Maddock’s story
  • ECT Survivor Stories
  • FDA’s 2011 Hearings on Reclassifying ECT
  • Info about ECT
  • Is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Effective?
    by Philip Hickey, PhD
  • Medical Records
  • Neurologist John M. Friedberg on ECT
  • No One Should Be Given Shock Treatment
  • Peter Breggin, MD: Electroshock is Brain Trauma
  • Recommended Reading
  • Resources
  • Whistleblowers

About ECT Justice

ECT Justice was created to help advocate for ECT survivors and their families and to gather and disseminate information about known risks of ECT.  If you are an ECT survivor suffering from post-ECT cognitive deficiencies, please know you are not alone.  By sharing your issues, we are able to continue our efforts toward helping ensure that appropriate warnings of the potential risk of permanent injury gets provided to anyone considering ECT. Together we can make a difference.

Recent Posts

  • Don’t swallow everything you’re told as the truth May 22, 2019
  • Failure to speak out against ECT May 17, 2019
  • Family Secrets May 14, 2019
  • Stop Shocking and Torturing Women – Mad in America May 13, 2019
  • Lou Reed: That Which Does Not Kill Us Can Radicalize Us – Mad in America May 6, 2019
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