Jack Dikian
June 2011
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), formerly known as electroshock, is a psychiatric treatment in which seizures are electrically induced in anesthetized patients for therapeutic effect. Today, ECT is most often recommended for use as a treatment for severe depression which has not responded to other treatment, and is also used in the treatment of mania and catatonia.
ECT was first introduced in 1938 and gained widespread use as a form of treatment in the 1940s and 1950s.
According to Medicare figures, it seems the use of ECT has increased by almost 30% in the past five years in NSW, particularly among young women. This is significantly greater than Victoria.
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