Angela Harte | PubMed Health

PubMed2004

Privacy and identity in a changing world.

OBJECTIVE: To consider the issues of privacy and identity relevant to psychiatric practice in the context of recent technological initiatives and the society that has produced them. CONCLUSIONS: Emerging technologies may have implications for the ways in which Western society relates. These are likely to affect the ways patients present, their concerns and how we may best assist them. Psychiatry may also be of benefit in the evaluation of the privacy implications of new technologies.

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PubMed2002

ECT in poetry.

We sought to identify poems about Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and describe their major themes, with a view to using some of those poems in clinical situations-for persons receiving ECT and their families-as well as for teaching purposes. Several poems were identified, eight almost exclusively about ECT and a number of other works containing references to the treatment. The poets, some of whom have won distinguished prizes, came from the United States, U.K., Australia, and Estonia. The poems included very positive accounts of ECT and more denigrating pieces. Some of the themes covered by the poems were the desperate plight of persons prior to ECT, the potentially striking beneficial effects of the treatment, fears about the use of electricity, ECT procedure, and memory impairment, and the stigma associated with the treatment.

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