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2 unusual facts about electroconvulsive therapy


Apollo's Song

The head doctor at the institute uses shock therapy to try to clear Shogo's mind and stop his violent behavior.

Shock therapy

Electroconvulsive therapy, or electroshock, a psychiatric treatment in which seizures are electrically induced, or its predecessor metrazol/cardiazol convulsive therapy


I'm a Little Teapot

"I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Here is my handle, here is my... handle... Gosh, I'm a sugar bowl." (From a character-based physical gag used in the original Saturday Night Live cast skit "Gidget Goes to Shock Therapy").

Linda Andre

Linda Andre is an American psychiatric survivor activist and writer, living in New York City, who is the director of the Committee for Truth in Psychiatry (CTIP), an organization founded by Marilyn Rice in 1984 to encourage the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) machines.


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