Not Forgotten

This site is to share public records regarding patients and employees of the Traverse City Asylum, State Hospital for the Insane, Northern Michigan Asylum, Traverse City Regional Psychiatric Hospital.
There is so little information available regarding patients, often known as inmates, that I felt it was important to post, make public, the little information available, as a genealogist, researcher and briefly, an "inmate" shortly before it closed.
My homage to those who suffered.

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Electroconvulsive Therapy

ECT, or electroconvusive therapy was used at the Asylum beginning in the 1940's. It was a successful form of treatment for depression.
At first, the treatment was given "unmodified", without anesthesia which often produced unpleasant side effects. In the 1950's, treatments were given "modified" and anesthetics, like Sodium Pentothal and muscle relaxants were used.

 ECT was first introduced at the asylum in 1946.

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