The Ban on Unmodified ECT and Psychiatrists Craving For a New Identity

Seventy-fourth Report on the Mental Health Care Bill 2013. Rajya Sabha Secretariat, November 2013.

Antony JT. The Mental Health Care Bill-2013: A disaster in the offing? Indian J Psychiatry 2014; 56: 3-7.

Narayan CL, Shikha D, Narayan M. The Mental Health Care Bill 2013: A step leading to exclusion of Psychiatry from the mainstream medicine? Indian J Psychiatry 2014; 56:321-4.

Kala A. Time to face new realities; mental health care bill 2013. Indian J Psychiatry 2013; 55:216-9.

Collier JAB, Longmore JM, Hodgetts TJ. Oxford handbook of Clinical Specialties. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 1995.

Gangadhar BN, Phutane VH, Thirthalli J. Research on electroconvulsive therapy in India: An overview. Indian J Psychiatry 2010; 52,Suppl S3:362-5.

American Psychiatric Association. The practice of electro-convulsive treatment. Recommendations for Treatment, Training and Privileging. Task Force Report on ECT. American Psychiatric Association. Washington DC. 2001.

Scott AIF. The ECT Handbook. The Third Report of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ special committee on ECT. London: The Royal College of Psychiatrists; 2005.

Andarade C, Shah N, Tharyan P, Reddy MS, Thirunavukkarasu M, Kallivayalil RA et al. Position statement and guidelines on unmodified electroconvulsive therapy. Indian J Psychiatry 2012; 54(2):119–33.

Fear CF. The use of ECT in the treatment of schizophrenia and catatonia. In: Scott AIF, editor. The ECT Handbook. The Third Report of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ special committee on ECT. London: The Royal College of Psychiatrists; 2005.

ECT Team, Department of Psychiatry. ECT Administration Manuel [second edition], Bangalore: National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences [NIMHANS]; 2013.

Mental Health Act 1987; with short notes and with central MHA Rules1990. New Delhi: Delhi Law House; 2003.

Antony JT. A decade with the Mental Health Act 1987. Indian J Psychiatry 2000; 42:347-55.