Insulin Shock Therapy - Leonard Frank - Anti-psychiatry

Leonard Roy Frank, Anti-psychiatry activist Mr. Frank edited the best-selling Random House Webster's Quotationary in 1998 and The History of Shock Treatment in 1978. Active in the psychiatric survivors movement since 1972, he is a member of MindFreedom International, a coalition of more than 100 grassroots groups working for human rights in psychiatry, and also The Coalition for the Abolition of Electroshock in Texas, from whose website The Electroshock Quotationary may be downloaded free of charge at

http://www.endofshock.com/102C_ECT.PDF

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• psychology
• antipsychiatry
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[originpax]

Absurd. "Insulin Shock Therapy" hasn't been used in years.

[psychetruth]

Well he's an old dude.

Over 100,000 people a year in the US still receive Electroshock.

Believe it or not, a form of lobotomy is still used as well rarely. It's called a bilateral cingulotomy.

[KobyBrandt]

This is like a dark ages approach to "curing" mental disorders. Maybe they should also try leaching. The "theories" that "treatments" like Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT aka Electroshock) and Insulin Shock Therapy are based on isn't just dubious, it's fucking fantasy.

[psychetruth]

Funny you should mention the dark ages. It actually goes back before that. The Greeks would give people poison in order to induce a convulsion. So the practice is very old. The thing that freaks me out is after 2500 years, we are still doing the same crap and it never once resulted in an actual cure.

[tomken8d]

That's horrible.

Psychiatry is a crime against Humanity.

The "Anti-Psychotic" drugs, Insulin Shock, ECT, Lobotomy and all the other "treatments" they administer are Felony Assault with depraved indifference.

Every death associated with psychiatric 'treatments' is, quite literally, murder.

They should all be arrested and prosecuted like the psychopathic criminals they are.

[TheGiantRobot]

Yeah, the "first: do no harm" seems to be completely removed from modern medicine. It's now shock, cut, irradiate, poison, and see what happens from there. If we come up with a new, deadlier toxin or weapon, you can be pretty much guaranteed they'll put it to use in medicine.

[sestrogor]

Sir,how i see u are in old age and dont have any tardive (unvoluntary muscle movement) like unfortunately many many psyhiatry patiens today threted with neuroleptic drugs,and if u was in such a hospital it was sure wasnt cos flu,so ure lucky man compared to what nowdays psyhiatric patience coming throught...

[flickad]

@flickad errr...reference; am over-tired.

[flickad]

@zeropointorigin Biological theories of mental illness remain unproven despite decades of research. Your referral to organic mental illness thus lacks any firm foundation, though Big Pharma has been most successful in its efforts to turn the theory into cultural myth.

[Pugliosa]

Why is this a related video to "Foster the People" - wtf.

[dmguru4u]

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[rouncer81]

@zeropointorigin these "side effects" as you call them are PERMANENT PARTIAL BRAIN DAMAGE. ITS NOT WORTH IT.