Electroshock Therapy (CN part 2)

Electroshock therapy was introduced to mentally ill patients by Ugo Cerletti, an Italian psychiatrist. He first saw electroshock therapy being used to pigs in a slaughter house. The pigs that were being shock went unconscious and was easier for the workers to slaughter them. Cerletti saw this as treatment for mental illness patients.
Electroshock therapy is the concept of having electricity pass through your brain. Electroshock therapy is also commonly called electroconvulsive therapy or ECT. One year later, ECT was introduced to the US by the New York State Psychiatric Institute. For about thirty years, patients of all ages received ECT. ECT was used for what doctors thought were disorders, including, depression, mania, schizophrenia, and homosexually.
By the end of the 1960s, ECT almost vanished from the psychiatric scene. Novels like “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” played a major role in discrediting ECT. ECT was put on hold after a while. Many new doctors felt other therapies were better.
Electroshock therapy was one of the most drastic procedures used for psychiatric therapy. Today it is rarely used to “cure” people the way it used to.