Representations of ECT in English-Language Film and Television in the New Millennium

@article{Matthews2016RepresentationsOE,  title={Representations of ECT in English-Language Film and Television in the New Millennium},  author={Avery Madeleine Matthews and Peter B. Rosenquist and William Vaughn McCall},  journal={The Journal of ECT},  year={2016},  volume={32},  pages={187–191},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:206144447}}
Too often, ECT is portrayed as a torture technique rather than an evidenced-based therapy, and even in a therapeutic setting, it is too often shown with outdated techniques.

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