Shocks were given to people while they were conscious, and we routinely revived them. They remembered the anxiety, says 92-year-old psychiatrist

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When diazepam was first used, it was like Beethoven's most beautiful sonata for us, recalls 92-year-old Brigita Žiaková. The former head of psychiatry in Levoča, eastern Slovakia, describes in an interview the methods used to treat mental illness at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, why people often suffered deeply, and how the composition of psychiatric patients changed over time.