Is electro-therapy used?
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The use of electrical current to treat medical conditions.
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TV Show • 2016 Report
Yes
309
No
29
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Anonymous
El’s mother is shown to have been tortured with electro-therapy to the point of being permanently catatonic
TV Show • 2005 Report
Yes
143
No
22
8
JayEdwards
There's a scene in an abandoned asylum in which a ghost uses what is essentially electro therapy to harm a character
TV Show • 2019 Report
Yes
136
No
74
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MPaul
Electrocution is used as a form of torture
TV Show • 2013 Report
Yes
112
No
3
3
Teamoon
In the second season there is a young woman who has Cotard syndrome and believes she is dead. Eventually gets treated and they mention electro-therapy a few times, that she will get it and that it's thought to be useful for this condition. Never seen done on scene in this episode.
TV Show • 2011 Report
Yes
103
No
15
10
Tarar
It's used in Asylum, for one person it is used as gay conversion therapy, and for another it fries her brain so much that she forgets her own name.
Video Game Report
Yes
101
No
28
13
TheLightestShadow
Not in a conventional or explicit way, but c!Tubbo does try to use electricity to help c!Ranboo regain his memories.
Movie • 1999 Report
Yes
92
No
1
5
ShelleyRidewood
Not seen but referenced by one of the character having had it
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
92
No
2
7
BitbatReviewsMovies
Yes, it is used to torture rocket and his friends. A hologram can be seen where rocket is tortured while they are inserting his cybernetic implants into him as a baby
TV Show • 2018 Report
Yes
90
No
16
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Twinku
while it’s not precisely electro-therapy, the character in captivity is forced stuck by something similar.
TV Show • 2021 Report
Yes
90
No
20
7
megdoesmost
[SPOILER] Beginning of S2 E1 from about 7:00-8:00 mark. Character receives electro therapy after the girls get rescued. Very graphic and unsettling.
TV Show • 2005 Report
Yes
82
No
58
1
five
implied usage in s8e15
Movie • 2000 Report
Yes
82
No
0
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Circuitscars
It's really brutal and seriously messed me up. I wish I had known before seeing this movie. Don't watch if you're afraid of this specific thing or of mentally ill people being abused.
Movie • 2021 Report
Yes
78
No
3
10
dg2703
not sure if this fits the category, but a character is tortured with an electric rod and shocked several times by it
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
76
No
33
24
Eldritchsquared
The animatronics are repeatedly shocked with tasers. While this isn’t electro-therapy, it’s still notable as they have a strong reaction to it.
TV Show • 2014 Report
Yes
73
No
4
5
mad_melody
Throughout Season 5, several people are tortured with shock collars.
Movie • 2019 Report
Yes
73
No
1
17
WontWatchIfDogDies
You don’t see, but you hear it.
Movie • 2021 Report
Yes
71
No
0
0
AnonymousFriends
Yes! Shown on screen. Near the end, a child is given ECT. It can be very triggering. It's only mentioned in the beginning of the film
Movie • 2018 Report
Yes
71
No
0
9
mad_melody
Russell (a young teenage boy) has visible burn scars on his neck from electro-therapy. At one point he has a flashback to receiving electro-therapy. The electro-therapy machine is shown again when Russell returns to the orphanage later in the movie. Additionally, a few characters are electrocuted throughout the movie.
Movie • 2004 Report
Yes
69
No
32
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Anonymous
It is not electric therapy, but Adam gets electrocuted from the chain he has attached to his feet.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
69
No
0
6
Anonymous
Explicitly shown. It's shortly after a person is dragged out of a car
Movie • 1999 Report
Yes
67
No
1
10
TwoLesbiansInATrenchcoat
A character uses an averse skin shock device on herself, however these scenes are played for kink.
TV Show • 2011 Report
Yes
65
No
6
3
mickkmilk
in season 5 there are mentions of electro therapy surrounding ians brief time in a mental institution and carl tries it on ian by throwing a toaster in the pool (toaster was not connected so nothing happened).
Movie • 2019 Report
Yes
63
No
0
8
Dana123
It was briefly shown from a point of view of the patients ankles in restraints.
Movie • 2014 Report
Yes
62
No
1
6
killthecompetition
between 1:29:50 and 1:30:20, a character is strapped down and is shown screaming in pain.
TV Show • 2020 Report
Yes
60
No
15
3
Anonymous
Characters are electrocuted, but no actual ECT.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
57
No
1
1
bernadettem
Big part of it, happens towards the end.
TV Show • 2010 Report
Yes
57
No
0
4
dynamicmassive01
A torture device set up by the villain has characters sit at a device with images of their friends and switches, they get told that they must choose one of the friends to be electrocuted or they all will be. It later emerges that this was about the psychological aspect of the torture and none of them were actually electrocuted.
In season 7 upon finding a basement of files; the characters discover that when having her sister institutionalised, one character authorised electro-shock therapy to be used on her. Although it is never explicitly stated or shown it is implied that the character suffered due to this.
The main villain of the show spent almost the entirety of her life in a mental institution; it is implied that she was forced to undergo electro-therapy
While exploring a sanitarium; the characters find electro-shock therapy devices.
In season 7 upon finding a basement of files; the characters discover that when having her sister institutionalised, one character authorised electro-shock therapy to be used on her. Although it is never explicitly stated or shown it is implied that the character suffered due to this.
The main villain of the show spent almost the entirety of her life in a mental institution; it is implied that she was forced to undergo electro-therapy
While exploring a sanitarium; the characters find electro-shock therapy devices.
TV Show • 1997 Report
Yes
56
No
6
3
stickysweet_hunny
S23
E23
"Mexican joker" they "electro-therapied" a Mexican kid to cure his "trauma" so he wouldn't become Mexican Joker.
TV Show • 2022 Report
Yes
53
No
32
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Anonymous
Wednesday says that electro-shock therapy has a "satisfying afterburn" which is pretty insensitive writing.
electro-therapy is discussed frequently.
Wednesday tortures someone using tazers
electro-therapy is discussed frequently.
Wednesday tortures someone using tazers
Video Game • 2016 Report
Yes
51
No
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Anonymous
electro-therapy isn't used, but a character is executed via electric chair in chapter 4