Exact figures for ECT success rate please. Also, depression is not something that should be defined as an illness, in the same way happiness isn't, it is culturally defined and this is something many anthropologists have proven in their studies. But then, was it not psychologists who took so much pleasure in the liberal use of lobotomising patients? I don't know which I'd rather be, schizophrenic, or a vegetable.
A forget the name, but a study was performed a few years back in which a researcher sent various actors to psychologists, all claiming they could hear voices. Many of them were locked away, administered drugs etc. The funniest thing was, however, that they were all diagnoses differently and given different drugs! Imagine if real doctors did the same thing.
Barbaric pseudoscience.