In the article Shock, an investigation into the startling comeback of electroconvulsive therapy, prominent ECT proponent Max Fink, says ECT patients are mistreated by researchers:
“I edited the Journal of ECT for the first 10 years. I read many submissions. And when you read them, you realize that people have . . . mistreated their patients. They don’t know it, but I know it from the way they write.” Fink says delivery protocol standards need to be developed where they don’t exist and enforced where they do. “Very few physicians are trained properly (in ECT),” he says, adding that some institutions offer one-day training programs. He calls these programs “spurious” and “unethical.”
Max Fink, Shock, an investigation into the startling comeback of electroconvulsive therapy, page 27
