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Consequences and side effects of
cardialzol shock therapy
The "inventor" Ladislaus of Meduna suggests "regularly
triggering 30 strokes at three-day intervals" - an extreme
physical and psychological burden. ...
Intravenous injections of Cardiazol fight a torture with a
different torture suffered by the patients as a death or
end of the world experience. "Feelings of annihilation
arise," states the specialist literature dryly. Often enough,
Cardiazole shocks throw patients completely off course,
who feel the injection "like an electric shock". Others
experience "photisms" in the form of flashes of light and
red vision, or "pain up to the outermost end of the body".
Dr. Ernst Adolf Schmorl writes in 1938 in the "Allgemeine
Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie und ihre Grenzgebiete" about
the "influence of cardiazole cramp treatment on the
clinical picture of psychoses" using the example of 130
cases: In almost all of them he notes a "clear
disinhibition" or even a "linguistic unleashing".
Employment would be easier to manage. He claims to
have noticed a "certain grace of movement", but also
"fax syndromes" with a high degree of confusion.
Schmorl wants to suggest that the antispasmodic is
suitable for "immobilising", he always recommends
individual "cardiazole strokes". From the doctors' point of
view, this effect in particular makes martyrdom justifiable.
illustrative visual material
• "Throw a person with a behavioral disorder from the roof of
a skyscraper and let them suffer the dying experience to
the last possible point of intervention and catch them with
a blanket just before the impact.
• Praise this method as a therapy that has a quality of
experience that changes people at least for a certain
time... (see also the medical entries in the documents
about Erna Kronshage's sometimes spontaneous
"ridiculous and confused behavior").
• Such "final" chemically triggered experience models
certainly change the biochemical metabolism in the brain,
i.e. the messenger substances in the neurotransmitters,
which then naturally - positively or negatively - change the
behavioral possibilities of the brain in the future.
• The disciplinary aspect of most of these therapies,
especially the painful and dangerous forced shock
therapies, emerges from psychiatric self-reports.
• Benedikt Fontana, Director of the Waldhaus Psychiatric
Clinic in Chur, said in 1988 in retrospect of persistent
prisoners in his institution:
Source: Jürgen Schreiber: A painter from Germany - Gerhard Richter - Das Drama
einer Familie, Berliner Taschenbuchg Verlag, 2007, pp. 95-96
• “If they bucked,
• we had to shock them.”
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