ECT Treatment: A History of Helping Patients
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is used to treat patients with certain types of mental illness, including severe depression, severe mania, and catatonia. It was first developed in the late 1930s, with the first recorded treatments at McLean Hospital taking place in 1941. A few years prior to the advent of ECT, many hospitals, including McLean, used chemically induced seizures as a method to...