2. The Electroshock Therapy Experiment
While Dr. Lauretta Bender is best known for developing the Bender-Gestalt Test, some former patients remember her for something worse. While working at Bellevue Hospital, between 1930 to 1956, Bender routinely experimented on ‘curing schizophrenic children’.
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Bender used electroconvulsive therapy on ‘schizophrenic’ children; shocking one group everyday, for 20 days in a row. During her time at Bellevue, she is thought to have shocked up to 100 children between the ages of three and 12.
The repeated frying of young brain cells led to life-changing consequences for many of her patients. Most experienced drastic behavior changes, changing from shy to violent; in some cases, almost catatonic. One of those who became violent after the ECT was tried for multiple murders, a few decades later.
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