The mind ? Why not the brain, this time ?
How can high-voltage electricity restore the mind ?
Do it yourself, "Doctor" ; will you demonstrate the 'safety' of these practices on your own person (or your own mind) ?
"In a successful course of treatment, the brain will experience a sequence of biochemical and electrical events that are expressed in the body as epileptic seizures. A seizure is a coordinated brain and motor response that is present in the newborn infant, is retained throughout life, and has been observed in all animals."
(Max Fink, Electroshock, New York and Oxford, 1999, p. xi).
A seizure is a coordinated brain and motor response ? (let alone the rest of the above.)
Any Scientist : Anywhere in the World :
If this be "not my subject" then what is going to be left of your subject — if such "science" as the above be countenanced indefinetely long ?Fink, Max, 1923- Title(s) Convulsive therapy : theory and practice. Publisher New York, Raven Press, c1979. Paging 308 p. ill. Notes Includes indexes. Includes bibliography.