Those look like the type what have legs in order to stack like bunkbeds.
With only about 12" between each bunk, Miserable to be invalided.
I suppose makes for stowing dead or at least unconscious people easy.
Thank you for the new gallery, Motts! I've been checking the site a couple times a week to see when we'd be treated to one, and I was glad to have my patience rewarded.
Back in the day that Baumeister was doing this it was near the end of the horrible evil practice of not providing any kind of affection or positive human interaction to patients regarded as retarded or mentally ill or having cerebral palsy often regarded as not having a mind. The rocking is a stress reaction and self comforting. I think what's her name the gal who invented a hugging machine for herself, they did a movie on her, sort of proves my point. I read the first couple paragraphs and it sounds horrible what he was doing to them.
Oh My! Sorry for misunderstanding. But, either way, Not good. Not sanitary. You must of cringed and absolutely dreaded being last, and if you tried to refuse you most likely had a fate worse than that. :(
I was also there was roommates with Shane and Matt, across from John L****** and Scott G****** year 1984 to 1987 I think it was ward a, staff I remember Lisa, Neil, willy B******.
Yes there was the "master shocker" at Buffalo State Hospital, however I could not ascertain if it was used specifically for ECT; it seems most commonly used for animal behavior studies. Unfortunately the device seemed to have been used on institutionalized patients, as referenced in the article "Effects of Contingent Shock and Verbal Command on Body Rocking of Retardates" (Alfred Baumeister & Rex Forehand, 1972 http://www.neurodivers..._baumeister_1972.pdf ), which in itself is disturbing as well. Photo of that particular room is here: http://opacity.us/imag...1_master_shocker.htm
I only know of one other explorer who had come across an ECT unit (or rather a few in a storage room), which was the same model as the one pictured here. As they look like a makeup case when closed, I'll bet they've been overlooked more than once.