Shock Therapy: The Last Resort

Its proponents cite an efficacy rate better than any anti-depressive drug on the market; its detractors say it is an electrical lobotomy. This program offers a balanced look at electro-convulsive therapy, or ECT. While following the ongoing treatments of a 30-year-old mother of two, the program provides interviews with people on both sides of the issue, such as Dr. Peter Breggin, a psychiatrist and outspoken critic of ECT, and Roland Kohloff, the New York Philharmonic's chief timpanist, who claims ECT saved both his life and his son's life.