-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.cchr.org/ect/eng/page20.htm <A HREF="http://www.cchr.org/ect/eng/page20.htm">Therapy or Torture? - Psychiatry Destroys Minds </A> ---- Therapy or Torture? - Psychiatry Destroys Minds In the old days during electroshock “we used to break arms...leg[s] and elbows.” Dr. Harry Bailey psychiatrist UK, CANADA: Psychiatrists used the Page-Russell ECT Machine which gave “multiple shocks,” calling this “therapy.” A Sydney, Australia doctor told of her ordeal of torture at the hands of Chilean secret police in the 1970s. Dr. Sheila Cassidy described how she was given electric shocks while tied naked to a bed after she had treated a man with a bullet wound who had been recommended to her by a priest. The wounded man turned out to be a revolutionary. Dr. Cassidy was taken blindfolded to an interrogation center, where she was tortured three times, each time for more than an hour. She shuddered at the thought of the electroshock and said, “I don’t want to talk about it anymore.”69 Electroshock was used on nearly all political prisoners held in Brazil in the 1970s. Survivors told of various parts of their body, including their genital organs, being subjected to electroshock. The torturers called the machine used to generate the shocks the “Brigitte Bardot.” And in El Salvador, doctors used drugs to disorient their victims before using the stand-by of all medical torture, electroshock machines.70 Infantrymen, under South Africa’s former apartheid regime, tortured villagers using shock treatment on their genitals, ears and nipples.71 In Libya, physicians regularly supervised or performed electroshocks to the head and genitals of prisoners. And when the Iran hostage crisis ended in 1980, a team of CIA doctors examined the freed Americans, finding that they had been severely tortured and that only Iranian psychiatrists and psychologists would have had the expertise to do so.72 MOROCCO: The same Page-Russell machine was used as a weapon for torture. In 1961, King Hussein restructured and trained his security service in Morocco. The service was staffed with doctors who supervised the torturing of prisoners in a detention center that had isolation chambers built identically to the psychiatric isolation cells in Cameron’s Allan Memorial [psychiatric] Institute (where mind control experiments were being conducted). The Moroccan torture center also had several Page-Russell electroshock machines, which were used routinely on prisoners.73 The Page-Russell technique, developed in the UK, used powerful multiple shocks – at least five in one treatment. Ironically, that same year, a report on Canada’s mental hospitals was issued which was highly critical of the Page-Russell machine that had been used to administer 12,000 electrical treatments – 60,000 separate shocks – to a total of 1,000 patients at Allan Memorial.74 The fact is that electroshock is a form of torture. But placed in a hospital setting and cloaked in muscle relaxants, anesthetics and the legitimacy of medicine, it is suddenly and inexplicably pronounced “therapy.” The scientific principle behind electroshock is no more advanced than the principles behind terrorism or neighborhood bullying. Even in hospitals, it is well recognized that electroshock is used for punishment: “...[M]ost hospital patients fear ECT. Hospital staffs have not been lax in making the most use of this fear to motivate desired behavior. In other terms, it’s like whipping a child for disobedience. The results are the same. Immediate compliance but Big Trouble in the long run.... On the basis of the research cited so far, it would seem the problem child is being more than whipped, he’s being crippled.” Dr. Robert Morgan, Ph.D. February 196675 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] © 1997 Citizens Commission on Human Rights. All Rights Reserved. For Trademark Information. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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