Textbooks and official reports claim that the risk of death from ECT is very small. For example the American Psychiatric Association (2001) report devoted just one of its 245 pages to deaths caused by ECT, which it called “General Issues”. (This is one page more than the Shorter and Healey book). The report claimed: “Published estimates from large and diverse patient series over several decades report up to 4 deaths per 100,000 treatments.” This is false. A report by the UK’s Royal College of Psychiatrists (1977) had cited studies ranging from 4 to 9 per 100,000 treatments. The A.P.A. Report states, without citing any research, that: “A reasonable current estimate” is “1 per 10,000 patients or 1 per 80,000 treatments.” This statement was repeated verbatim by a R.C.P. report three years later (Benbow, 2004).