Tea, biscuits and classical music: inside an ECT clinic

Electroconvulsive therapy is a serious procedure, but the rooms where it takes place feel calm and ordinaryElectroconvulsive therapy is such a serious treatment that there is something almost prosaic about the place where it happens. There is a sense that the therapy is no more dramatic – or time-consuming – than visiting a blood bank. There is even a tea and biscuit station at the end.Within a suite of five rooms at the Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS trust, classical