Ginger Breggin · @GingerBreggin
8th Feb 2012 from Twitlonger
Dr. David Healy calls for “making sure that action is curbed until one is sure that the action does no harm, now and in the future” but he does not take his own advice concerning shock treatment. He is a shock doctor, has run a shock ward in Wales, and wrote a glowing tribute to shock (2007). Healy has also attacked the psychiatric reform movement for years. David Healy’s ultimate solution (for depression for instance) is ECT, a treatment my husband Dr. Peter Breggin has documented as being closed head injury and an electrical lobotomy.
See:
Healy attack of psych reform movement, for example"
1. "there is no comparable protest against the use of antipsychotic drugs"
2. "seems that the critics are behaving according to the romantic illusion that if they can just abolish ECT, mental illness will disappear"
:http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/healy1/English
Healy ECT book glowing tribute to shock within which he recommends shock for depression: http://www.amazon.com/Shock-Therapy-History-Electroconvulsive-Treatment/dp/0813541697/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328722960&sr=8-1
Breggin (and other published resources) documenting damage of ECT: http://breggin.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=52
Video of invited presentation by Dr. Breggin at the NIH Concensus Conference on ECT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x1MDrvG0Oy0
Dr. Breggin's most recent medical text (2008) on damage of ECT as well as damage of psychiatric drugs and role of FDA: http://breggin.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=45