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Electroconvulsive therapy: A history of controversy, but also of help

  • Written by Jonathan Sadowsky, Theodore J. Castele Professor of Medical History, Case Western Reserve University

Carrie Fisher’s ashes are in an urn designed to look like a Prozac pill. It’s fitting that in death she continues to be both brash and wryly funny about a treatment for depression.

The public grief over Carrie Fisher’s death was not only for an actress who played one of the most iconic roles in film history. It was also for one...

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