Recommended Reading

 For Understanding ECT

 Shock by Kitty Dukakis and Larry Tye

 Undercurrents by Marsha Manning

 

 Links with Information about ECT

 ECT: A Light in the Darkness

 ECT Information Booklet published by St. Patrick's Hospital in  Dublin, Ireland

 Sherwin Nuland on electroshock therapy

 

 For Understanding Mental Illness or Suicidal Tendency

 Why People Die by Suicide by Thomas Joiner, PhD

 Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison, MD

 Night Falls Fast by Kay Redfield Jamison, MD

 Darkness Visible, William Styron

 Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon

 

 For Understanding the Process for the Mentally Ill within the US  Mental Health and Prison Systems:

 Crazy by Pete Earley

 

 For Understanding Brain Function and Lifestyle Impact on the  Brain

 Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain,  John J. Ratey, MD

 Change Your Brain Change Your Life, Daniel Amen, MD

 The Brain that Changes Itself, Norman Doidge, MD

 Healing the Addictive Brain, Harold C. Urschel,III, MD