The state generally hasn’t taken advantage of its opportunity to challenge in annual Probate Court hearings the use of skin shocks. That should change in light of the SJC’s decision. Using electric ...

As a teenager, Jennifer Msumba had “very strong self-harm behaviors,” including putting her head through windows. Hoping to get her help, her parents sent her to a center in Massachusetts, where she ...

BOSTON, Mass. (SHNS)–Vowing to work with families to find alternative therapies, Rep. Danielle Gregoire renewed her decade-long push to ban the use of a controversial electric shock device for people ...

Prince Harry has confessed that watching Meghan Markle's steamy scenes in Suits was a bit too much for him, leaving him feeling like he needed "therapy." The Duke of Sussex, who married Meghan in May ...

(Reuters) - A Massachusetts institution for the developmentally disabled can continue to use controversial electric shock devices to address aggressive or self-harming behavior in residents, the state ...

The editorial in the Sept. 11 edition of the Globe regarding the use of electric shock therapy at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton posits that all that’s required are “substantive ...

Arun Rath: This is GBH’s All Things Considered. I’m Arun Rath. A lot of us might assume electric shock therapy is a thing of the past. It's been widely condemned by organizations like the U.S.

More than 250 people were subjected to painful electric shocks, designed to change their sexuality and gender identity, in NHS hospitals between 1965 and 1973, the BBC has discovered. Three Electric ...