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Electroshock: A Crime Against the Spirit
Epigraph
“In remembrance lies the secret of redemption.” —Bal Shem Tov
Introduction
Some personal background will be helpful in understanding my perspective on electroshock. I was born in 1932 in Brooklyn and was raised there. After graduating from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, I served in the U.S. Army and then worked as a real estate salesman for several years. In 1962, three years after moving to San Francisco, I was diagnosed as a “paranoid schizophrenic,” involuntarily institutionalized, and eventually subjected by force to 50 insulin coma and 35 electroconvulsive procedures.
“Combined insulin coma-convulsive treatment” was routinely administered to “schizophrenics” in the United States from the late 1930s through the mid-1960s. The electroconvulsive “treatments” are given while the subject is in the coma phase of the insulin coma “treatments” (sometimes the two procedures are given separately on altern
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Pauli Murray
American writer and activist (1910–1985)
Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray (November 20, 1910 – July 1, 1985) was an American civil rightsactivist, advocate, legal scholar and theorist, author and – later in life – an Episcopal priest. Murray's work influenced the civil rights movement and expanded legal protection for gender equality.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Murray was essentially orphaned and then raised mostly bygd her maternal aunt in Durham, North Carolina. At age 16, she moved to New York City to attend Hunter College, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts grad in English in 1933. In 1940, Murray sat in the whites-only section of a Virginia bus with a friend, and they were arrested for violating state segregation laws.[3] This incident, and her subsequent involvement with the socialistWorkers' Defense League, led her to pursue her career goal of working as a civil rights lawyer. She enrolled in the lag school at Howard University, wh