Classics in ECT: Berkeley Ban on ECT That Never Was: Various Sources, 1983-1986

"Classics in ECT" brings you some media articles about the Berkeley, CA ban on ECT:

This was on PubMed, but I could not access the text:

• Judge tosses out Berkeley ban on ECT, surprising both sides in controversy.

  [No authors listed]Med World News. 1983 Oct 10;24(19):8.PMID: 11649486 No abstract available.

And from the NY Times:

Here is the text, typed out, of the above NY Times article:

And from the LA Times in 1986:

The Berkeley, California ban on ECT is part of American ECT lore. Although the city voted in 1982 to ban ECT, as noted above, the ban never went into effect due to legal challenges*. The details of all the back and forth are complex and beyond the scope of this blog; the APA was instrumental in the ultimate good outcome.

Some of this resonates with what is happening in the USA today regarding abortion.

(*Some sources I read implied that the ban might actually been in effect very briefly at the end of 1982, before the January,1983 ruling.)