Last Resort: Court petitions for electroshock treatment increase

Connecticut Inside Investigator – Sunday, March 1, 2026
By Marc E. Fitch

Throughout the course of 2024, judges in Connecticut’s probate court system approved nearly two hundred petitions from psychiatric hospitals to administer electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to patients who had thus far refused the treatment, according to figures obtained under a Freedom of Information request and provided to Inside Investigator.

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