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# ECT

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Hundreds of Irish people are still undergoing electro-shock therapy
'Worrying' jump in electroshock without consent and with physical restraint of mental health patients
'Lax' response by Cavan hospital to electro-shock blunder
Electroshock still used without consent despite promises
Calls to end electroshock therapy, it can be carried out on people "unwilling or unable" to consent
The ‘defacto detained’: How voluntary patients can be held without review
Minister Lynch: ‘Unwilling’ patients no longer to receive electric shock therapy
Concerns over use of electroshock therapy on non-consenting patients
347 psychiatric patients received electro-shock therapy in 2010
Call for changes in use of electro-convulsive therapy
Electro-shock therapy defended by psychiatric group