Electroshock Therapy for Depression: Electroshock and Its Abuse
... or ECT (electro convulsive therapy) was first developed by psychiatrist Ugo Cerletti in 1938, who was witnessing pigs being slaughtered by first being incapacitated by electric shocks, making it easier for butchers to slit the pig’s throats and bleed them to death. Cerletti first experimented on pigs. Then he turned his experiments on humans. The convulsions brought on by electroshock broke people’s teeth, jaws and fractured spines and more. The shock introduced grand mal seizures, a wild ...