Doctors fear ‘cognitive dissonance’ between ‘normal’ treatment of mental illness and ‘psychotic’ treatment
Doctors at Johns Hopkins University say their clinical practice of using electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to treat people with severe mental illness is “cognitively dissonant” to the treatment of the most common psychiatric disorder, schizophrenia. The neuroscientists, researchers and doctors said that, despite the fact that most…