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MINDFREEDOM IRELAND PRESS RELEASE.
PERSISTENT PROTESTORS CONTINUE CAMPAIGN. For the 11th year running, yet another public protest against the psychiatric procedure of electroshock took place on The Grand Parade, Cork on Saturday. During the procedure, an electric current is passed through the brain of an anaesthetised person to deliberately induce a grand mal seizure. Psychiatrists defend the practice by claiming it is beneficial for severely depressed people who have not responded to drug ‘treatment’. Recent figures indicate that almost 250 people are electroshocked in Ireland every year. Two thirds of them are women and many are elderly. The Saturday protest heard testimony from people who said that rather than helping...
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Protest Against Controversial Psychiatric Electroshock
MINDFREEDOM IRELAND PRESS RELEASE 7th MAY 2018. PROTEST AGAINST CONTROVERSIAL PSYCHIATRIC ELECTROSHOCK. A protest against the controversial psychiatric practice of electroshock, still used in Irish hospitals today, will take place in Cork next Saturday, May 12th. The procedure, carried out under general anaesthetic, involves passing an electric current through a person’s brain sufficient to cause a grand mal epileptic seizure. Proponents cannot say definitely how it works but reserve the right to administer it. Opponents say there is no scientific evidence that so-called mental illnesses exist and equally that there are no biological markers to prove that electroshock works, even as it...
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MindFreedom Ireland Press Release
MINDFREEDOM IRELAND PRESS RELEASE 7th MAY 2018. PROTEST AGAINST CONTROVERSIAL PSYCHIATRIC ELECTROSHOCK. A protest against the controversial psychiatric practice of electroshock, still used in Irish hospitals today, will take place in Cork next Saturday, May 12th. The procedure, carried out under general anaesthetic, involves passing an electric current through a person’s brain sufficient to cause a grand mal epileptic seizure. Proponents cannot say definitely how it works but reserve the right to administer it. Opponents say there is no scientific evidence that so-called mental illnesses exist and equally that there are no biological markers to prove that electroshock works, even as it...
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A Disorder for Everyone
http://www.adisorder4everyone.com/gallery/ 'A Disorder for Everyone' is coming to Cork on Friday, June 1st, 2018.
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A Disorder for Everyone
http://www.adisorder4everyone.com/gallery/ 'A Disorder for Everyone' is coming to Cork on Friday, June 1st, 2018.
