1994
Daily Telegraph 7 May 1995
E.C.T. - continued from page 34
however, the series was much reduced. It always seemed to me that the wrong patients were receiving treatment if the reputation, of the Block was true, namely that only the most hopeless patients were to be found in these wards. We were, 'going through the motions' rather .than accomplishing something of a concrete nature. I once discussed it with a patient who had passed right through the psychotherapy and psychosurgical mills. In his time he had undergone every treatment it is possible to name, yet still his condition endured. He is still alive, one of thousands, quite forgotten, for he has no relations, and pondering his own private thoughts. 'What's
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your opinion of E.C.T.?' I asked him. 'My dear fellow,' he said wearily, 'your guess is as good. as mine. They've given me everything they know and I' still hear voices and I still see things.' He looked at the floor. 'I can't see anything at this moment, but tomorrow - well, there might be something. I don't know: All the treatment in the world doesn't seem! to stop it. If it's asocial or antisocial or whatever you like to call it to see things and hear things, then I'm asocial 'or antisocial.' 'What were you before you came here?' .'1 was a doctor,' he' said heavily. He was telling the truth. He had been a consultant specialist.‘