... form of torture (Chavin 1). ECT has been around since the 1930s and is an electrical current passing through the brain, which brings on seizures in the patient. It came from the idea that seizures and schizophrenia did not occur at the same time in one person. The why and how of this therapy is still ... , she had an epileptic style seizure, which is the goal in the therapy as described above. Then, she had a heart attack while in the recovery room. Four days later she died of heart failure, the main cause of shock induced deaths (Cauchon 3). That's the story of just one woman who died a...

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