Electro-convulsive therapy: it works for me

Rarely have I been so disappointed with the tone and content of a news item as I was with the reporting on electro-convulsive therapy in NSW hospitals ("Shock therapy forced on patients", June 6-7). The story reinforces concerns about the misuse of ECT in the past and in repressive regimes, and its influential misrepresentation in popular culture, particularly the enduring impact of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.