Robert Dirk Tymstra - September 14, 2015 ←

Hi there, I have personaly had and experienced over 14 ECT ( electroconvulsive therapy ) treatments they have helped not only my mood swings but given me tremendous hope towards the future. I was severely manic depressive and extremely suicidal but these ECT treatments along with the walking and with the fantastic doctors involved as well the psychiatrists Dr.Zamora, Dr.Bieber, Dr.Hasty, Dr.Sabersen, the ECT nursing team Donna, Colleen, and those also that work with them all have had tremendous input into my recovery. ECT therapy is not for everyone but in my case it was the only answer. I have been diagnosed with bipolar and borderline personality disorder. When I am manic or was I would lose all touch with reality and just want to off myself no matter what but the great nursing staff and psychiatrists at St.Joseph”s Charleton Campus 9th and 10th Towers helped along with the ECT team at the West 5th Campus as well.

Carmeb - July 28, 2015 ←

Aurora pavilion – at Aiken Regional Medical Center
655 medical park drive
Aiken SC 29801

ECT is performed here as of 2014

Susan Brown - July 9, 2015 ←

By the way, I should have added that I recommend avoiding Danbury Hospital in Connecticut, as well as any hospital that offers ECT.

Susan

Susan Brown - July 9, 2015 ←

Danbury Hospital in upper Fairfield County, CT, also performs ECT. I do not believe in this procedure, and have had it forced on me through the probate court system at least a couple of times. It is the nature of the treatment to destroy memories, as well as many other cognitive processes, and I cannot even remember how many times a course of treatment has been administered.

Please see Dr. Peter Breggin’s input on ECT at http://www.org, especially his 1998 paper: “Electroshock: scientific, ethical, and political issues”. It was published in the International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine 11 (1998) 5-40, IOS Press. His other website is worth visiting and exploring: http://www.breggin.com. He is a reform psychiatrist who is one of the few voices in psychiatry today who makes sense.

We are living in the technological age. This does not mean that our medicine is any more “safe” or “effective,” or advanced. It is basically an age of high-tech, poisonous and dangerous leeches; the superstition fueled by the god of science, devoid of the true God or any humanness. This is my own opinion, not necessarily Dr. Breggin’s.

He is a scientist who reveals the untruths and the ineffectiveness, as well as the danger, of modern treatments based on scientific grounds. His solution will hopefully become mine, with the addition of prayer and faithfulness to God. He recommends empathy, self-direction, and a host of recovery options that we have come to espouse in the peer-recovery movement respecting human sensitivity, individuality, self-determination, the integrity and vulnerability of both the person and the body, and the natural ability to heal when assisted by people and organizations who also respect these innate human qualities. HIs colleagues have been few and far between over the past half-century, but they are the only ones I really trust, due to the imbedded corruption in medicine today.
Even most well-meaning doctors are affected by this corruption in our age, being misinformed and misdirected, even in their efforts to save lives. This is my opinion. I welcome any who find that these observations resonate with their own.

Mitchell Krasnerman - June 7, 2015 ←

I have and still recieve ECT treatment – safe, effective and reliable – I am also writing a book on ECT – Here is my list that I currently have – I will have to work on adding more details such as phone number and related info – I have been using basically google to get my info –

Chapter 5 – Places in the U.S. to get ECT
1) New York
a) Lenox Hill Hospital
b) Mt. Sinai Hospital
c) Columbia_prysbeterian
d) New York State Psychiatric Institute
e) Westchester Medical Center
f) DENT Neurological Institute
g) University of Rochester Medical Institute

2) New Jersey
a) Morristown Medical Center and Overlook Medical Center
b) Centrastate Medical Center
c) Carrier Clinic
d) Jersey Shore University Medical Center
e) Princeton Healthcare
f) Virtua Memorial Hospital

3) Conneticut
a) University of Conneticut Medical Health
b) Yale New Haven Medical Center
c) Hartford Hospital

4) Massachessets
a) Arbour Hospital
b) Berkshire Medical Center
c) Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
d) Cambridge Health Alliance
e) Carney Hospital
f) Henry Heywood Medical Center
g) Lawrence Memorial Hospital
h) Massachusetts General Hospital
i) McLean Hospital
j) Melrose-Wakefield Hospital
k) Mount Auburn Hospital
l) Newton-Wellesley Hospital
m) St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center
n) Tufts Medical Center
o) Whidden Hospital

5) New Hamphire
a) Concord Hospital

6) Hawaii
a)

7) Virginia
a) Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center
b) Inova Health System
c) Virginia Hospital Center
d) Eastern Virginia Medical Center
e) Reston Hospital Center

8) Florida
a) University of Florida Health
b) Florida Health
c) Central Florida Mental Health
d) Delray Medical Center
e) USF Health
f) Mayo Clinic
g)

9) Rhode Island
a) Butler Hospital
b) Rhode Island Hospital

10) Pennsylvania
a) University of Pennsylvania Health System

11) California
a) El Camino Hospital
b) Therapeutic Solutions PC
c) ???

12) Arkansas
a) UAMS Medical Center
b) ?

13) Maine
a) Maine General Medical Center
b) Southern Main Health Care
c) Acadia Hospital

14) Vermont
a) White River Junction VA Medical Center
15) New Hamphire
a) Concord Hospital
b) Butler Hospital
c) Elliot Health System

16) Minnesota
a) Fair View Medical Health System
b) Mayo Clinic

17) Iowa
a) University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics
b) Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services
c) Mercy Hospital Medical Center
d)
18) Wisconsin
a) University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
19) Michigan
a) University of Michigan Health System
b) Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services
c) Henry Ford Hospital
d) Beaumont Health System
20) North Dakota
a)
21) South Dakota
a) Avera Behavioral Health Center
22) Wyoming
a) Luzerne-Wyoming Counties Mental Health and Developmental Services.
b) Chayenne Regional

23) Montana
a) Providence Health Services
b) Inova Health System
c)

24) Idaho
a) Eastern Idaho Medical Center
b) Bingham Medical Hospital
c) St. Luke’s Clinic
25) Nebreska
a) Bryan Health

26) Ohio
a) Ohio State University
b) Cleveland Clinic
c) University Hospitals of Cleveland
d) Lindner Center of HOPE

27) West Virgina
a) Chestnut Ridge Center
b) Virgina Commonwealth University Medical Center
c) CAMC General Hospital
d)
28) North Carolina
a) Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
b) Vidant Health
c)
29) South Carolina
a) Carolina Center for Behavioral Health
b) Health Institute of Psychiatry
c)
30) Mississippi
a) St. Dominic Hospital
b)
31) Tennessee
a) Lakeside Behavioral Health Center
b) University of Tennessee Medical Center
c)
32) Louisiana
a) Tulane Medical Center
b)
33) Texas
a) Seton Health Care Family
b) Texas Orthopedic Hospital
c) Zale Lipshy University Hospital
d)
34) Arizona
a) University of Arizona Medical Center
b) Mayo Clinic
c) Brian Espinoza MD
35) Georgia
a) Emory Health Care
b) Summit Ridge Hospital
c) Georgia Regents University
d) Athens Regional Medical Center
e)
36) Utah
a) University of Utah Health Center
b) Utah Surgical Center
c)

Bruce Rioux - May 26, 2015 ←

The University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, Vermont offers ECT. I had a course there. And Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine offers ECT as well. I had a course there also.

David - April 27, 2015 ←

I live in Las Vegas Nevada, and I also work in the mental health field. I’m also someone who has received ECT. I received it at Montevista hospital in Las Vegas Nevada. I would be more than happy to answer questions, and address concerns.

Truth - November 9, 2014 ←

Ect is unpredictable and dangerous. It is the equivalent to a closed head injury concussion.
It causes brain injury, memory loss, and permanent cognitive dysfunction. Patients may feel “better” because of the minor euphoria brain damage can generate. Google the latest updates on ECT and brain damage. Check out Peter Breggin’s website. Read about people who have lost 20 years of memory and their careers. Google names like Jonathan Cott, Peggy Salters, Barb Cody, Linda Andre. Order the book Doctors of Deception. Find the Bentall and Reid review of Literature on ECT which concludes it causes brain injury and cannot be scientifically justified.
Do not spend time finding places willing to injure you; you can simply have a friend smash you in the head with a bat multiple times. ECT has its own PR campaign and the lies abound.
Memory loss equals brain damage. ECT can cause massive memory loss. There is nothing medical or healing about electrocuting a delicate brain and sending people into multiple grand mal seizures.
This increases ones risks of epilepsy and Alzheimer’s.

Deanna - August 29, 2014 ←

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Psychiatric Research Institute
http://psychiatry.uams.edu/
(501) 526-8100
pri@uams.edu

Laura Ryan - July 27, 2014 ←

Another hospital that does ECTs is St. Mary’s in Richmond, Va. I’ve heard good things about the treatment there.
-laura

JACKEE - April 12, 2014 ←

HI, MY NAME IS JACKEE AND I WOULD LIKE TO LET U KNOW THAT “ECT” HAS SAVED MY LIFE. I BELIEVE THAT ONE TREATMENT WILL NOT HELP AND THAT U SHOULD REALLY THINK ABOUT HOW MUCH BETTER LIFE CAN BE. I WAS GIVEN ECT AS A LAST RESULT FROM BIPOLAR/MANIC DEPRESSION/ Goreaphobia. I understand how u must feel not having a Support System Behind U. I thought I had a SUPPORT SYSTEM behind me but it really WASN’T.. I was doing very well when I was on ECT but now I am the One that has failed MYSELF and am looking to find out how to get back in treatment. I haven’t had ECT in over 2yrs. I experienced in myself memory loss that has been returning to me slowly but I feel confused becuz I don’t know how to deal with remembering things. A part of me wants to know my past and a part of me wishes It never returned. I believe Ect side effects are different in everyone. All I can say if that U are able to get ECT u should go for it becuz I would really help. I got mine done in Northern California at Sutter Center for Psychiatry in Sacramento Ca.

Marie - March 1, 2014 ←

Cedars Sinai in Beverly Hills is no longer. The ECT group with Dr. Kramer moved to the Olympia Medical Center on Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, a couple of years ago.

I have been driving a special woman for ECT treatments for 7 years now.

DJ - November 24, 2013 ←

Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, CA

wendy williamson - September 12, 2013 ←

Okay, you probably already finished your book but just in case, here are two from nj.

http://www.centrastate.com/Psychiatric-Services/Electro-Therapy CentraState in Freehold, NJ

http://www.jerseyshoreuniversitymedicalcenter.com/JSUMC/services/behavioralhealth/ElectroconvulsiveTherapy.cfm Jersey Shore Medical in Neptune, NJ

Princeton House ECT saved my life. I see you already have that on your list though. :)

Jennifer Small - August 5, 2013 ←

Seton shoal creek hospital in Austin, texas does both in and outpt ECT. 512-324-2000

DJ - June 29, 2013 ←

Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
Englewood, NJ

http://www.englewoodhospital.com/ms_psychiatry_home.asp

Linda Connors - June 12, 2013 ←

Awaiting moderation means that if this comment doesn’t meet with approval, it will be removed but that doesn’t change the facts. He prescribes ECT for anyone who is unlucky enough to end up under his care.

Tina - March 5, 2013 ←

Kaiser Sunnyside in Oregon does ECT

Susan - February 24, 2013 ←

I have had this done in two different hospitals in Ontario, but I’m not sure if they still do. But these are them: Wellesley Hospital in Toronto (1996) and Southlake Hospital in Newmarket, Ontario in (1998).
Hope this helps for people in Ontario. You might want to ask them if they still do it.

C.A. Register - January 15, 2013 ←

ECT facilities in Maine: Maine Medical Center; Mid Coast Hospital; Acadia Hospital

Carole - December 3, 2012 ←

Minnesota:

Mayo Clinic Hospital, Mankato
1025 Marsh Street, Mankato, MN 56001
(507) 625-4031
http://mayoclinichealthsystem.org/locations/mankato

Carole - November 5, 2012 ←

Mayo Clinic Health Center (hospital), Mankato
1025 Marsh Street
P.O. Box 8673
Mankato, MN 56002-8673

brianna - October 10, 2012 ←

Christ Hospital – Oak Lawn Illinois
Hinsdale Hospital- Hinsdale Illinois
Loyola Hospital- Maywood Illinois
MacNeal Hospital- Berwyn Illinois

Herb - March 19, 2012 ←

Hi Natasha,

I think you and your readers might find this recent article of some interest.

Electroconvulsive Therapy For Depression – How It Workshttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/243096.php

Warmly,
Herb
vnsdepression@gmail.com
http://www.vnstherapy-herb.blogspot.com

Jeanne - February 25, 2012 ←

Please add UNI – University Neuropsychiatric Institute; of University of Utah Health Care
501 Chipeta Way
Salt Lake City, Utah
801-587-3297

They do an excellent job, and are very patient oriented. I worked mostly with Dr. Weeks who is wonderful and would stay in touch through emails(I live in Idaho), and also worked some with Dr. Bushnell who also was very understanding and informative. They do both in and out patient. Also both doctors kept in touch with my psychiatrist here in Idaho.

Thank you dfor doing this valuable work
Jeanne

Katya - February 24, 2012 ←

Ahhh, ECT. The antithesis of science.

Melissa - February 24, 2012 ←

The Institute of Living
200 Retreat Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
(860) 545-7015
http://www.harthosp.org/InstituteOfLiving/default.aspx

Steph - February 23, 2012 ←

UC Irvine Medical Center