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From its earliest days, ECT was misused and sometimes abused. In 1944, Emil Gelny, a psychiatrist at two mental hospitals in Lower Austria and a member of the Nazi Party, modified an ECT machine for use in the T4 euthanasia programme of the mentally ill. Or as Peter Cranford, a psychiatrist working at Milledgeville State Hospital in Georgia. Bodyguard For My Little Sisiter Shirt noted in his diary in the 1950s, “Catatonic stupor one day, play basketball the next.”
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As World War Two was coming to a close, he added four more electrodes to an ECT machine, allowed the current to flow for minutes (not milliseconds), and murdered 149 patients whose lives were regarded as “not worth living”. Although far more people died from lethal doses of drugs or by malnutrition, Gelny’s work would cast an understandably dark shadow over ECT’s future. Bodyguard For My Little Sisiter Shirt.