Oppressive Life in Mental Hospital.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest also demonstrates how electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was abused for controlling and punishing the rebelling patients. In fact, ECT was often overused and even misused in the middle of the twentieth century, but today more caution is applied in the use of ECT, and it is actually used much less now. Although ECT was originally developed for the treatment of schizophrenia, it is today mainly used as effective method for treating depression. Although ECT can result in serious side effects such as memory loss or even death in rare cases, it is considered an option for treating severe depressions “especially when patients do not respond to other treatments” (Oltmanns & Emery, 2012, p. 56).
References
Oltmanns, T. F. & Emery, R. E. (2012). Abnormal psychology (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
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