2024年7月5日 · Despite its therapeutic efficacy and advancements in safety, Hollywood has often depicted ECT in a negative, exaggerated, and sometimes horrific light, contributing to public fear and misinformation. One of ECT’s most iconic yet misleading representations is found in the 1975 film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

Results: ECT was portrayed in 52 movies (57 scenes), 21 TV programs (23 scenes), and 2 animated sitcoms (2 scenes). In movies, the main indication for ECT is behavioral control or torture (17/57, 29.8%), whereas in TV programs, the …

2016年11月1日 · ECT was portrayed in 52 movies (57 scenes), 21 TV programs (23 scenes), and 2 animated sitcoms (2 scenes). In movies, the main indication for ECT is behavioral control or torture (17/57, 29.8%), whereas in TV programs, the …

2024年10月23日 · Used to treat severe depression, bipolar disorder, and catatonia (when someone is awake but unresponsive), ECT has often been negatively depicted in movies, books, and TV shows. That, says mental health experts, is unfortunate because it is a safe and highly effective treatment.

To describe the portrayal of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in American films. This has not been systematically studied previously, despite some notorious ECT scenes in the history of American cinema and the impact of films on audiences. All movies depicting or making reference to ECT were identified from a number of sources.

2004年6月1日 · Electroconvulsive therapy made its film debut in 1948 in Anatole Litvak's Academy Award-winning The Snake Pit, a movie set at Juniper Hill State Hospital. The film follows the path to recovery of Virginia Cunningham (Olivia de Havilland), a young writer who develops a psychosis shortly after marriage.

Having commenced its movie career as a severe but helpful remedy for personal distress, ECT on film has become a progressively more negative and cruel treatment, leaving the impression of a brutal, harmful, and abusive maneuver with no therapeutic benefit.

2011年11月2日 · The best known portrayal of ECT appears in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest [3]. Here again, the administration of an older unmodified ECT given punitively, is used as a device to move the plot along rather than as a treatment. Kesey’s own views of ECT may have been at odds with this use

Results: ECT was portrayed in 52 movies (57 scenes), 21 TV programs (23 scenes), and 2 animated sitcoms (2 scenes). In movies, the main indication for ECT is behavioral control or torture (17/57, 29.8%), whereas in TV programs, the …

To describe the portrayal of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in American films. This has not been systematically studied previously, despite some notorious ECT scenes in the history of American cinema and the impact of films on audiences.