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Dr. W. Mayer-Gross, Department of Clinical Research, Crichton Royal, Dumfries expounds electric convulsive therapy as an effective method of treating depression, both in manic-depressive illness and involutional melancholia. But he does not discuss either the etiology of depression or the way in which he thinks E.C.T. acts to produce change. Dr. Gerald Garmany, Physician-in-charge of Psychiatry, Westminster Hospital, also reports successes with E.C.T. combined in many cases with psychotherapy, and he likewise does not discuss how the treatment works.
Dr. W. Clifford M. Scott, Director of the London Clinic of Psycho-Analysis, discusses the value of psycho-analysis in the understanding and treatment