electric shock therapy

Emma was kept away from her children for two years and received endless forms of electric shock therapy.

In 1945, not long after learning his parents had been murdered in Nazi death camps, Emil landed in a Chicago mental asylum, forcibly committed by his sister, where he was administered electric shock therapy, according to his family.

Some of the most extreme measures have included electric shock therapy, hormone regimens, physical abuse and internment.

Halls on the very same campus were once dedicated to electric shock therapy and other experimental treatments, now recognized as inhumane and torturous, intended to change the sexual orientations of BYU students through at least the 1970s.

Before consenting to electric shock therapy for Billy, Mr. Mirro said, he did research and tested the shock on himself — it felt like a bee sting, he said.