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Kitty Dukakis' co-written book supporting the unsupportable]
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Will Hall
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Sep 26, 2006 07:41 PDT
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Subject: Kitty Dukakis' co-written book supporting the unsupportable
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:12:19 -0500
From: Gary Kohls <gko-@cpinternet.com>
To: Gary Kohls <gko-@cpinternet.com>
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From: john breeding
To: Diann'a Posthauer ; lee spiller ; Leonard Frank ; Mike Rupp ; Norman
Moore
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 10:45 PM
Subject: Friedberg commentary
Subject: RE: Kitty Dukakis' co-written book obviously trying to support
the unsupportable: brain-damagin, last resort ECT (electroconvulsive
"therapy"), which is obviously not working, requiring the regular
repetition of the previously failed 7 courses of grand mal
seizure-inducing electric shock. Watch her slip gradually into premature
dementia, isolation, depression. Gary
Talk about depressing! Kitty Dukakis' and Larry Tye's book "Shock," has
that "here we go again, Ground Hog Day déjà vu that can really wear you
down.
If you care anything about the truth, that is.
Where to begin? I heard Mrs. Dukakis tell the world on Good Morning
America that the voltage involved is now down to 20 so she has that off
by a factor of perhaps 10.
But as she tells Newsweek, in dealing with the public since electroshock
"I generally am not on my game."
She says she has had 8 "sets" of ECT in 5 years and only has amnesia for
two weeks before and after the treatment. Assuming the modest number of
6 treatments per "set" usually three per week for two weeks, we're
talking about amnesia for 6 weeks times 8 "sets" or 48 weeks, almost one
full year out of the past six gone.
Furthermore she acknowledges ongoing memory problems (anterograde
amnesias: "I sometimes don't know where I am supposed to go or at what
time...I hatte losing memories, which means losing control over my past
and my mind, but the control ECT gives me over my disabling depression
is worth this relatively minor cost. It just is."
This book is evidently a call to the faith and we still have our
religious freedoms at least on paper.
But caveat emptor. Dense amnesias are in and of themselves
manifestations of brain damage. Victims of brain damage often have a
neurologic condition known as anosognosia or lack of awareness.
This was my depressing but realistic reaction, as a neurologist, to the
cyclical enthusiasm for convulsions and brain damage as a path to
happiness delivered by passionate testimonials by the true believers.
To date there is no scientific evidence that the improvement - or punch
drunk memory free state - affords relief beyond 4 months, even the echo
chamber of elctroshockers agrees to this.
John M. Friedberg, M.D.
3000 Colby Street Suite 305
Berkeley, CA 94705
510 644 2282
http://www.idiom.com/~drjohn.html
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From: john breeding [mailto:wild-@austin.rr.com]
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 9:07 AM
To: allen davisson; Diann'a Posthauer; lee spiller; Leonard Frank; Mike
Rupp; Norman Moore
Subject: Power Hour show on electroshock 9-20-06, 8am CST
Hi all,
Mike Rupp and I will be on The Power Hour radio show on Wednesday the
20th at 8:00-10:00 CST to talk about electroshock. The hosts have an
interest in the issue as they were involved in ECT practice in their
younger days...
The Power Hour is aired on the Genesis Communication Network and various
local affiliates, including Austin Free Radio, 90.1, 100.1, and 106.3 FM
depending on what part of town you are in. You can listen on your
computer at http://www.thepowerhour.com/
It would be great if some of you called in during the show. That number
is 1-877-996-4327.
Abolishing electroshock,
john
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