Category Archives: Electroshock

Putting a Stop to Shock: A Major Legal Victory – Dec 5, 2018

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“And the meek shall inherit the Earth.”

Join us in a celebration of the major legal victory just announced against electroshock device manufacturers!

Rethinking Psychiatry presents electroshock survivors Deborah Schwartzkopff and Michael Sturman.  Find out…

  • What is electroconvul sive therapy/ECT?
  • Why women and elders are more likely to be given shock treatment?
  • How “fully safe and painless” is modern shock treatment?
  • What does the court ruling mean for thousands of victims living with aftereffects of shock?

Deborah Schwartzkopff

Deborah Schwartzkopff worked 25 years as a Registered Nurse. She survived 66 bilateral electroshock treatments at local hospitals. She has been an activist since 2011, and is founder of ECTJustice.com.

Michael Sturman

Michael Sturman has an M.A. in psychology from the University of Detroit (1969) and practiced psychology for over thirty years in a number of settings. At sixteen he was a patient at a state hospital in Michigan where he received 20-30 bilateral electroshock treatments, and underwent a long and difficult road to recovery. He is now retired, and lives in Eugene, Oregon.

Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 7-9 PM
New Location!
Montavilla United Methodist Church
232 SE 80th Avenue, Portland, OR 97215
Click here for map

FREE! (Donations Welcome $0 – $20 suggested)
For questions, contact RethinkingPsychiatry@gmail.com or message us on our Facebook Page.

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Ted Chabasinski – Aug 20, 2014

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Ted Chabasinski, JD

Ted Chabasinski, JD

Note New Location! First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave., Portland, OR (in the downtown park blocks)

Wednesday, August 20th at 7pm

Join us for a very special summer Rethinking Psychiatry meeting.  We are excited to have Ted Chabasinski as our guest speaker!

Ted Chabasinski has been active in the psychiatric survivors movement since 1971. He was lead organizer of the 1982 campaign that successfully persuaded Berkeley voters to ban shock treatment in the city. Ted is known as a visionary, and an articulate, tough, and often witty speaker.

Now a patients’ rights lawyer, Ted was taken from his parents when he was 6-years old, experimented on with a course of electric shock treatments, and then sent to a state hospital for the rest of his childhood.  He writes about the power of psychiatry and how it is abused, especially against children.

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Lauren Tenney Radio Show on ECT (Electroshock)

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Electroshock: A Crime Against Humanity

Listen to Talk with Tenney on blogtalkradio as host Lauren Tenney interviews electroshock survivors Sue Clark-Wittenberg, Don Weitz and George Ebert; along with John Breeding PhD. Facebook event page

June 4, 2014, 5 – 7 PM Pacific
Listen here: www.blogtalkradio.com/TalkWithTenney
Call in to join the discussion: (267) 521-0167

Electroshock, also known as ECT, shock or electroconvulsive therapy, involves the application of two electrodes to the head to pass electricity through the brain, with the goal of causing an intense seizure or convulsion.  Studies have shown that it always damages the brain.  Yet it is still being given at facilities like OHSU and Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center.  Yearly 100,000 people in the USA get ECT.  Most people are forced to have ECT.  Worldwide, it is estimated that 1 to 2  to million ECTs are being given.

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Protest ECT – May 24, 2013

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ECT protestWhere: Kaiser Sunnyside Hospital
10180 SE Sunnyside Road
Clackamas, OR
When: Saturday, May 24
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Join Deborah Schwartzkopff and other ECT survivors protesting this brutal psychiatric treatment. This will be a peacefull protest on the sidewalk near the main hospital entrance. Protest signs will be provided.  Click here for details.

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