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   From: Trudy_member@newsguy.com   
      
   In article <1181445884.799095.99680@n15g2000prd.googlegroups.com>, Barbara   
   Schwarz says...   
   >   
   >On Jun 9, 9:14 pm, Trudy Johnson  wrote:   
   >>In article   
   >><1181282956.565033.139...@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,BarbaraSchwarzsays...   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> >On Jun 7, 9:46 pm, Trudy Johnson  wrote:   
   >> >> "I believe there have to be organic changes or organic disturbances in   
   the   
   >>>>physiology of the brain for the cure [with electric convulsive therapy] to   
   >>take   
   >>>> place. I think the disturbance in memory is probably an integral part of   
   the   
   >>>> recovery process. I think it may be true that these people have for the   
   time   
   >>>>being at any rate more intelligence than they can handle and that the   
   >>reduction   
   >> >> of intelligence is an important factor in the curative process. I say   
   this   
   >>>>without cynicism. The fact is that some of the very best cures that one   
   gets   
   >>are   
   >>>>in those individuals whom one reduces almost to amentia [mentally   
   deficient or   
   >>>>feebel-minded]."    ABRAHAM MYERSON (U.S. electroshock psychiatrist),   
   >>discussion   
   >>>>following Franklin G. Ebaugh et al., "Fatalities Following Electric   
   Convulsive   
   >> >> Therapy: A Report of 2 Cases with Autopsy Findings," Transactions of the   
   >> >> American Neurological Association, June 1942.   
   >>   
   >>>>Oh sure - reduce someone's mental capacity to that of a feeble-minded   
   person   
   >>or   
   >>>> "retarded" individual and things may not bother him/her any longer.  This   
   is   
   >> >> quite a ridiculous solution, don't you think?  How cay someone be "too   
   >>>>intelligent"?  This had to have been written by someone who is just too   
   afraid   
   >> >> that others may be smarter than he!  Sounds just like the psychiatrists   
   of   
   >> >> today!   
   >>   
   >> >> Trudy   
   >>   
   >> >They are afraid that intelligent people find out what they are doing,   
   >> >that is why they want to druck, e-shock and hypnotize intelligence out   
   >> >of them.   
   >>   
   >>Well, Barb, we have found out and we are making sure that others know the   
   truth   
   >> as well.   
   >>   
   >> Trudy   
   >   
   >Sounds good, Trudy, keep your informative postings up. Without those,   
   >ARS would be nothing but a hate group.   
   >   
   >Barbara Schwarz   
   >   
   Thanks Barb, I am working on it!   
      
   Trudy   
      
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