What do you folks think about this?

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Corporal Punishment' to 'Corporal Punishment, electric shock, un, behavioral, torture, therapy' - edited by blankfist

$200,000 a year?! Holy shit. Is it run by Enron? That's expensive "shock therapy".

Also, @5:37: wikki-wikki-wak like a DJ.

doctor is a hero. fucking government doesn't care about kids whatsoever. You don't see them in the hospital except to deliver lawsuits.

these kids are lucky enough to have a doctor that focuses on the behavior, instead of just drug therapy.

This kind of dehumanizing torture treatment is despicable. Those monsters doing that to their subjects should be sent to Hague for crimes against humanity, and the students' parents should lose their legal guardian status on the spot.

Hehehe, the expert on torture was shocked! How much different is this than a spanking or any other type of corporal punishment? It is more memorable than a spanking for sure, but less damaging physically. If he also has empirical evidence that they are not physiologically harmed, and rather, helped, then this guy is pretty brave for doing something so unpopular.

It depends on what the scientific literature says. And I believe the science is in agreement with what the doctor is doing, at least as it's presented in this video.

As when trying to determine when anything is good or bad, the relevant question is "Does this promote or hurt the long term prosperity of society?". The science says this is good for the individuals who need it, so the question is then "Does this negatively impact other people?". It could if, for example, the procedure were applied to people who the science says either do not need it or it will not work on. So there needs to be some system of checks to ensure the procedure is not abused. In the video, they said it requires a doctor's permission, the parent's permission, and court approval; that is more than enough oversight.

At first glance we may find this kind of treatment shocking. But I hypothesize that reaction is similar to our reaction when seeing humanoid robots in the uncanny valley. There is some combination of factors that we are not use to, directly or evolutionarily, seeing together--perhaps a person inflicting pain on another in a clinical unemotional way--so it produces in us a sensation that something is wrong. However, that indirect nature is actually a benefit if you compare the procedure with more commonplace methods of punishing children with pain. Whenever a person hits a child with a hand or belt or anything else, no matter how justified, he is directly teaching that child that violence and force are acceptable means of getting one's way. If the patients of the shock treatment do not perceive it as an aggressive action from another person, then all else being equal, that alone would make it superior to corporal punishment. And few(not enough) people get up in arms over corporal punishment.

Hehehe you said shocking.