Anti-Electroshock Mother's Day March & Demonstration

On Mother's Day, Sunday, May 13, 2007, the Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault (CAPA)organized a public, arts-based demonstration against electroshock ("electroconvulsive therapy", "ECT") therapy specifically for its use on women.

The public mistakenly believes that electroshock is a treatment that was only used in the past. In fact, the use of shock has increased in Canada and the United States during the last 10 years.

The two main targets of this destructive psychiatric procedure are women who have recently given birth, and women 60 years and older. With women electroshocked two to three times as often as men, with the physical and emotional damage wrought by electroshock well established, and with the complicity of the state clear, CAPA is declaring electroshock a form of state-sponsored violence against women.

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