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Sounds like a fascinating book, and a well-deserved indictment of those who believe in ECT. In my mind it is not any better than lobotomies and deserves to be relegated to the annals of bad psychiatry. I once worked in a psychiatric hospital, the same one that "treated" Francis Flowers many years before. I told myself then that if I ever had a mental illness I would still never be crazy enough to let myself be committed to a mental hospital.
I must admit I was somewhat puzzled by part of Oliver Broudy's profile of Jonathan Cott and his memory loss, "He Lost His Mind" (10/17/05). Cott's memory of the years 1985-2000 is, we are told, gone. Inter alia, Cott tells us, "I was really upset, but more on a personal level, when I heard that Glenn Gould had died, or that John Lennon had died, or that Bob Marley had died -- people whom I cherished, poets I had admired. I found out they had died at the same time. They all died at once."
Gould died in 1982, Lennon in 1980, and Marley in 1981. So, did Cott lose pre-1985 memories too or what is the story? I admire Cott's work too much to suspect a pr con, but something is fishy...
