June 23, 2023
The Electroconvulsive Therapy concept was that seizures, or convulsions, could be beneficial in treating psychiatric illness.
June 4, 2023
The straitjacket, what is the meaning behind this device? Is it a form of care, as some claim, or a form of brutality, as others argue?
May 20, 2016
During the 1890s the asylum began to take photographs of the patients and place them in the case notes. Most have survived and I have now an archive of over 700 of these photographs which have been digitally restored.
July 19, 2015
Electroconvulsive Therapy is an area that fascinates many people and has been in use since the 1940s when other therapies have not been effective
