title: Bearing Witness: Personal and Poetic Descriptions of Seizure Therapy.
abstract: Many voices comment on personal experience with induced seizures. The encouraging voices of professionals are contrasted with those in theater and film that stigmatize the treatments. The negative images have done much to support restrictive legislation.
authors.affiliation: From the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, Long Island, NY.
authors.forename: Max
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fink
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D011037:Poetry as Topic; D057545:Social Stigma