Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
I know someone who went through ECT therapy, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone, they were obviously still quite traumatized about it many years later.
I imagine that being the person to administer it would be pretty horrible as well.
Not quite. Still used extensively.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), the oldest somatic therapy still in use in psychiatry today, remains one of the most effective therapeutic interventions for a wide variety of psychiatric disorders.