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When he penned these lines, he had recently emerged half-starved from a nine-year period of incarceration in a lunatic asylum, having been subjected to more than 60 electro-shock treatments.
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Goddammit I thought the electro-shock and the chastity belt took care of your urges to “beat down” or whatever you kids are calling it these days.
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Still, "Homeland" managed to maintain its high level of suspense down to the last minute of season one, which ended with a bang on Sunday with Claire Danes's wonderful Carrie, CIA heroine and manic-depressive, about to undergo electro-shock therapy.
Finding Great Escapes Into the Past Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011
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Stop skipping your electro-shock treatments posted by Anonymous: 12: 10
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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In early 2009, psychologists in Shandong province began offering an alleged cure that involved the use of electro-shock therapy.
Odin's Day thegreenyear 2009
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When he penned these lines, he had recently emerged half-starved from a nine-year period of incarceration in a lunatic asylum, having been subjected to more than 60 electro-shock treatments.
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Victims testified Burge or officers working for him employed a menu of torture techniques: using pinchy alligator clips to administer electro-shock, and shocking their genitals and other body parts with probes, smothering them with plastic bags, strapping them to a radiator and scorching them, and playing Russian roulette.
Deborah Douglas: Burge Guilty Verdict Only the Beginning 2010
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"We used our bodies to try to prevent them from taking control of our ship, so they used electro-shock on us," he said in an interview.
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Not to long ago, even in the “civilized” US, trans* people were given lobotomies and/or electro-shock “therapy”.
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Brown radiates such gloom, despair and despondency that one hopes the National Grid can accommodate the required levels of electro-shock therapy.
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