The state generally hasn’t taken advantage of its opportunity to challenge in annual Probate Court hearings the use of skin shocks. That should change in light of the SJC’s decision. Using electric ...

An advocacy group plans to be at the Statehouse on Tuesday to push for a ban on the controversial electric skin shock therapy that is used by the Canton-based Judge Rotenberg Educational Center. The ...

The Public Health Committee of the Connecticut legislature is weighing a bill to extend the period of authorization to treat a person with electric shock therapy either with or without their consent.

As a psychiatric treatment, elec- troconvulsive therapy has had an image problem. One result, say Edward Shorter and David Healy, was the near absence for decades of what is a very effective approach ...