The Electroconvulsive therapy treated many patients who suffered mental illnesses and to some homosexuality. This method took the place of slow acting medications whose effects did not fast enough to treat the patients. The ECT was seen as a way to speed up the patients mental capabilities, this caused many to have retro amnesia and seizures. Many people do not understand why this method was used so heavily, to understand the “why” one has to know the history, how it was administered, the side effects and the reaction to it throughout the ages. Developed in the 1930s’ by an Italian Neurologist named Ugo Cerletti, the ECT was proven as an effective treatment method to those that suffered from different mental diseases. Cerletti came developed
