Following the death of her husband, the onset of age-related medical complications, and the
stark realization that she was no longer self-sufficient, Mary slipped into a deep state of …

Many states require proxies to obtain prior court authorization before consenting to
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), a controversial treatment, on behalf of an incapacitated …

To the Editor: We would like to thank the authors for this valuable contribution. 1 The authors
appropriately point out that the bulk of the regulatory framework for the provision of …

Dukakis, the wife of former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic presidential
nominee Michael Dukakis, hopes her candor will help counter inaccurate and harrowing …

Judie Tenenbaum, an attorney in private practice in Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, has
written an article in which she asks Reporter readers to reconsider their views on the …

What would you do if Lucille Austwick1 were your mother? In 1993, this eighty-one-year-old
woman was diagnosed with chronic depression and dementia. 2 According to her doctors …

Walter et al.(1) presented a serious discussion on themes that characterize
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in poetry. Their paper made me recall verses that I had …

Until 1953, a social, medical, and legal consensus favored confinement of the mentally ill in
state hospitals as the preferred means of dealing with serious mental illness.'State policy …

State regulation of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has done much to ensure that patients'
rights to refuse treatment and give informed consent remain intact. However, in the last …

Comments on P. Slawson's (1989) update of his 1985 paper concerning the APA's
experience with electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT) malpractice litigation and presents …