Cuckoo's Nest: Mental Health

ABC News - read an article and excerpt from Kitty Dukakis's book on her experience with ECT as a treatment for depression.

Mayo Clinic - Diseases and Conditions: Schizophrenia.

National Institutes of Health - Health Topics A-Z
Provides material (some very specialized) about various health topics. More general information is provided under "related topics."

National Library of Medicine: Medline Plus - a brief overview of electroconvulsive therapy.

NPR: "My Lobotomy" - one man's story of a lobotomy at the hands of Dr. Walter Freeman. Read other oral histories here.

a href="http://merck.com/mmhe/index/ind_ab.html" target="_blank">The Merck Manual Online - an extremely helpful overview of mental disorders, especially helpful for the personality disorders.

Healthfinder - A government website that links to other government health information.

PBS

A Science Odyssey - click on the link for people and discoveries/human behavior for a brief introduction to lobotomies and electroconvulsive therapy.The Lobotomist - click on this link for short clips from the series The American Experience on Dr. Walter Freeman.

Sound Portraits.org - a site of oral histories of ordinary people. Click on "My Lobotomy" to hear the story of a young boy who was forcibly lobotomised. See other links to a timeline of the procedure and its place in medical history.

The Psychedelic Sixties- presents information about the Merry Pranksters, Ken Kesey, and Tom Wolfe.