Electroshock therapy is still practiced today, and there has been a resurgence in the technique in the last few years.

Electroshock therapy is used to treat severe depression that hasn't responded to medication or therapy. It works by causing the person to have a small seizure by an electric current transmitted to the brain.

here is my musical description:

http://www.last.fm/music/sentientsimian/_/electroshock+lobotomy?autostart

Electroshock therapy, administration of a "truth serum", and hydrotherapy.

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