Electroshock therapy
In which a high-intensity current is given to the patient's skull, is now occasionally employed in psychiatric clinics, but only in the event of severe worldwide illnesses, when the patient, as they say, "had nothing to lose."
However, it was widely used half a century ago, notably as a sedative. In reality, the electric shock did not calm anyone, but instead caused excruciating suffering for the sufferers.
In the 1960s, the famed mathematician John Nash, who suffered from schizophrenia, was subjected to electric shock in mental hospitals in the United States, and afterwards described it as the worst experience of his life.
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