Electroshock, its brain-disabling effects / Peter Roger Breggin.

Table of Content
1. Major Issues in electroconvulsive therapy
Epidemiologic data
The legal status of ECT patients
The ECT controversy
Basic issues: Is there complete recovery from the acute organic brain syndrome

2. Six cases of mental dysfunction following modified ECT
Background of the losses
Permanent retrograde Amnesia
Permanent anterograde mental dysfunction
The reliability of clinical observations and subjective reports
The subjective experience of anguish and shame

3. ECT brain damage in animal experiments
Gross and microscopic pathology produced by unmodified ECT
Biochemical dysfunction produced by ECT

4. Human autopsy studies after ECT
Brain death and pathology following unmodified ECT
Brain death and pathology following modified ECT

5. Human brain-wave and neurology studies
The EEG after unmodified ECT
The EEG after modified ECT
Serious neurological dysfunction following ECT

6. Clinical and research reports conforming permanent mental dysfunction after ECT
Clinical reports of permanent mental dysfunction after Unmodified
Research reports permanent mental dysfunction after unmodified ECT
Reports confirming the acute organic brain syndrome after modified
Research reports of permanent mental dysfunction after modified ECT
Clinical reports of permanent mental dysfunction after modified

7. Are the patients lying
ECT and psychological testing
The lessons of lobotomy

8. The mechanism of brain damage in ECT
Electric current as the cause of damage
Conclusion as the cause of damage

9. The efficiency of ECT in depression and suicide

10. ECT as brain disabling therapy: historical perspective
Somatic treatment and mental hospital
Shock as brain disabling therapy
ECT as brain-disabling therapy
ECT as mind disability therapy
More subtle aspects of ECT induced tractability

11. Fear and other Psychological reactions to ECT
The historical role of fear in psychiatry
Fear and terror associated with ECT
Physical resistance to ECT
Clinical experience with fear of ECT
Physiological reactions to memory loss
Etc.

12. The brain-disabling hypothesis an overview
Fink's ''Unified theory of the action of the physio-dynamic therapies''
The disruption of normal brain function
The Specificity of ECT for psychotic depression
The specificity of ECT for women
The Philosophical context

13. Concusions
Informed consent
Progress in psychiatric reform
Protecting the vulnerable patient
Why ECT patients have been unable to seek legal redress
Criteria for informed consent
Recommendations
Etc.

Includes Index p. 239 - 243

Bibliography: p. 217-237.