ECT Toddlers being electroshocked in Australia Paul Skerritt

Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:44 AM Subject: ECT Toddlers being electroshocked in Australia 1 27 09 Fred Baughman, MD (author: THE ADHD FRAUD--How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children) comments on: ELENI HALE (Australian journalist), “Child Shock Therapy,” Melbourne Herald Sun, 25 January 2009 (will someone please get me the e-mail of the Melbourne Herald Sun) To the Editor: The medical profession--in this case Australia's--that does not rise up in outrage against the abomination of electroshocking children must view itself as morally bankrupt. Here being "mentally disturbed" in toddlers, like everything else in psychiatry, has become a diagnosis. Instead, this is a criminal act and needs being criminalized. It needs pointing out that the bioethicist quoted here, Prof Nicholas Tonti-Filippini has no ethics (where does his income come from?) and that Psychiatrist Paul Skerritt, of the Australian Medical Association who says ECT "rewires" a previously mis-wired brain should be advised that there is no such thing as "rewiring" the brain. The fact of the matter is that there is no physical treatment in psychiatry, all of their drugs included, that do not act on symptoms only, by causing diffuse physical damage to the brain. After testifying to the Parliament of Western Australia in June, 2004 that ADHD was a fraud I wrote the Australian Medical Association and several other Australian medical specialty groups pointing out their obligation to speak out forthrightly (to me and, more importantly to the special committee on ADHD of the Western Australia Parliament) on the fraudulent representation of ADHD to be a disease (when, of course, it is not). The AMA (Australia's) responded assuring me they were to consider the issue after which they would write to me again. They never did. Their medical officialdom seems to have found making "patients" of normal children as much to their liking as does ours here in the US. That I do not dispute. ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 8:36 AM Subject: Fw: [ZapBack!] Toddlers being electroshocked in Australia ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 10:45 AM Subject: [ZapBack!] Toddlers being electroshocked in Australia Among the horrors reported in a January 25th Melbourne newspaper, children - 4-years-old and younger - are being electroshocked in Australia: Children younger than four who are considered mentally disturbed are being treated with controversial electric shock treatment. Medicare figures show the use of Electroconvulsive Therapy has tripled in Victoria [a state in southeastern Australia ] in the private health sector alone in six years. A VicHealth report confirms more than 18,000 treatments were conducted in Victoria in 2007-2008. Federal Government statistics show the use of ECT — an electric shock delivered straight to the brain — in the state's private health system increased from 1944 treatments in 2001-2002 to 6009 in 2007-2008. About 12,000 treatments were performed in the public health system last financial year. Medicare statistics record 203 ECT treatments on children younger than 14 — including 55 aged four and younger. Two of the under-4s were in Victoria . Last financial year, 6197 ECT treatments were given to Victorians against their will. [opening paragraphs]... The figures show nearly three times as many women had shock treatment compared with men.... Increasing numbers of patients who had been forced into ECT treatment were contacting the Mental Health Legal Centre claiming they were tortured, Vivienne Topp, a lawyer and policy adviser said.... The figures show nearly three times as many women had shock treatment compared with men.... Bioethicist Assoc Prof Nicholas Tonti-Filippini supported ECT on children, saying some toddlers were "disturbed". Psychiatrist Dr Paul Skerritt, of the Australian Medical Association, said ECT sent the patient into an "epileptic" type fit, which helped rewire the brain. "It is one of the most effective and safe treatments, though I would not be applauding its use in children. These figures are very high," he said. [closing paragraphs] ELENI HALE (Australian journalist), “Child Shock Therapy,” Melbourne Herald Sun, 25 January 2009 clicca qui' materiali ricercati: testimonianze su chi ha subito i tso,video,convegni,informazioni,effetti collaterali degli psicofarmaci,testi,pubblicazioni etc,etc Aiutaci a diffondere questo portale, linkaci con il logo NP dal tuo sito/blog