Shock therapy : the last resort /

Explores the controversy surrounding the use of electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT. Follows the ongoing treatments of a 30-year old mother of two and interviews people on both sides of the issue, including Dr. Peter Breggin, a psychiatrist and outspoken critic of ECT, and Roland Kohloff, chief timpa...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Discovery Channel (Firm), Film Garden Entertainment, Inc, Films for the Humanities (Firm), Discovery Channel University
Other Authors:	Breggin, Peter Roger, 1936-, Kohloff, Roland, Leis, Tracey
Format:	Video VHS
Language:	English
Published:	[Princeton, New Jersey] : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, [2001]
Subjects:	Electroconvulsive therapy > Moral and ethical aspects. Electroconvulsive therapy > Case studies. Documentary television programs.

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Summary:	Explores the controversy surrounding the use of electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT. Follows the ongoing treatments of a 30-year old mother of two and interviews people on both sides of the issue, including Dr. Peter Breggin, a psychiatrist and outspoken critic of ECT, and Roland Kohloff, chief timpanist of the New York Philharmonic, who claims ECT saved both his and his son's life.
Item Description:	"Discovery Channel University." Videorecording.
Physical Description:	1 videocassette (49 min., 11 sec.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Format:	VHS.
Production Credits:	Editor, Dava Whisenant ; camera, Neal Kinard, John Hessler, Rich Joy, Darryl Rode, Luke Riffle, Ray Fitzwater, Scott Dropkin.