Dr. Bonnie Burstow: shock is a form of violence against women
Category: ECT Information and News and ECT Effects and Forced Shock
Dr. Bonnie Burstow explores electroshock as a form of violence against women. She is a feminist therapist, an anti-psychiatry and anti-fascist activist. She is also the former co-chiar of the Ontario Coalition Against Electroshock and is the author of Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence.
Two versions:
An edited version runs just under 30 minutes and the full speech runs just over 60 minutes.
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Added: Aug 18, 2006 11:15 am | Trackback URI | Email This Post | Print
i am 57 years old i was given 2 series of 7 electric shock treatments at cleckley hopsital—it was not because i was depressed or for any other reason than because i ran away from home all the time because my mother burned me with cigarettes and beat me with razor straps (my adopted mother) I have spent my entire life trying to remember what i forgot–i luckily have somewhat come through an awful experience and turned it around. I cannot begin to tell you the pains that have surrounded this for me. I remember waking up once and not knowing how to walk. I remember playing the piano well and after the shock treatments had no idea of how to play. I have been told that the amount that was given to me is illegal. I am blessed to have not become a vegetable. please stop the violence of hurting people. it is barbaric. it took a lot of work to a place that i can even speak about it
i am trying now to write a book about coming out on the otherside of obstacles