ECT: Give Credit Where Credit is Due
A powerful precision strike on depression
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7 min readMay 13, 2021
When I was doing my postdoctoral fellowship in clinical child psychology, one of my first patients was a 16-year-old catatonic girl. By catatonic, I mean she didn’t speak, she expressed nothing with her face, and she didn’t eat or sleep. She was so set apart from her body that, sitting in my office, she urinated without awareness.
