I am going to return to this subject:

The intent of psychotherapy, as I see it, is to uncover in a safe way things (thoughts, feelings, memories) that, because they are hidden, are causing trouble. It seems to me that shock treatment does exactly the opposite: it keeps things covered, or tries to.

Of course, the proponents of shock treatments claim that, although they do not understand how it works, it does help. I wonder whom it really "helps"? It occurs to me that it "helps" those giving the treatments more than the victim. That is, it keeps things that otherwise might be very frightening (to some) from being revealed.

And after all, even proponents of this method admit that it does not provide a permanent solution...