The hospital was still known as the 'Suffolk County Asylum or District Asylum up until the early 1930's.Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) is the deliberate and controlled induction by electrical ...

Two former workers at an infamous Kent mental asylum have shared eye-opening tales of what life was like behind the ...

The facility opened in 1931 and performed a number of lobotomies and electroshock therapy sessions — both state-of-the-art treatments in the 1940s. We explored the now-abandoned buildings that ...

When comedian Gary Gulman was told to try ECT — electroconvulsive therapy — to treat his severe depression, he was scared. “It used to be called electroshock therapy, but they felt that wasn ...

But this indirect method appeared slow and uneconomical. In the late 1930s and 1940s, electroconvulsive therapy took off, its popularity caused by the same factors that led to the acceptance of ...