Arun Rath: This is GBH’s All Things Considered. I’m Arun Rath. A lot of us might assume electric shock therapy is a thing of the past. It's been widely condemned by organizations like the U.S.

Amnesty International called for a global legally binding treaty to regulate the production of electric shock equipment, in a report published on Thursday. The report documents the widespread practice ...

BOSTON — Vowing to work with families to find alternative therapies, state Rep. Danielle Gregoire, D-Marlborough, is renewing her decade-long push to ban the use of a controversial electric shock ...