Burstow Bonnie
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada.
Violence Against Women. 2006 Apr;12(4):372-92. doi: 10.1177/1077801206286404.
This article reframes electroconvulsive therapy as a form of violence against women. Drawing on women's testimony and on scientific research, it establishes that this "treatment," which is overwhelmingly given to women, results in extensive cognitive and physical impairment. Correspondingly, it functions and is experienced as a form of assault and social control, not unlike wife battery. Emergent themes include electroshock as life destroying, a sign of contempt for women, punishment, a means of enforcing sex roles, a way to silence women about other abuse, an assault, traumatizing for those who undergo it and those forced to witness it.
本文将电休克疗法重新界定为一种针对女性的暴力形式。借助女性的证词以及科学研究，它证实这种绝大多数施用于女性的“治疗”会导致广泛的认知和身体损伤。相应地，它发挥着作用，且被体验为一种攻击和社会控制形式，与殴打妻子并无不同。浮现出的主题包括电击是对生命的摧毁、对女性的轻蔑表现、惩罚手段、强化性别角色的方式、让女性对其他虐待保持沉默的途径、一种攻击行为，对接受电击的人和被迫目睹电击的人而言都是创伤性的。
