When electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT) was introduced as a treatment for schizophrenia in the 1903s, what was the rationale for using shock therapy for these patients? ◯ The psychiatrist who introduced the treatment has a family member who suffered an electric shock and was 'cured' of his ailments ECT was believed to be much more humane that the other treatments being offered at the time ◯ The psychiatric community was fed up with patients not cooperating with the treatments being offered ◯ The psychiatrist who introduced the treatment speculated that epilepsy and schizophrenia could not coexist in the same body
