An innocent woman hauled off for electric shock treatment, stolen children butchered by an ax murderer, a mom confronting the killer -- even in Eastwood's sober accounting, this makes for heavy-duty melodrama.

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Mr Bassiouni's report described how prisoners were hooded, whipped, beaten and subjected to electric-shock treatment.

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We learn of his mother, Renee, who, by the time she bore Jonathan, in the early nineteen-seventies, had already suffered electric-shock treatment and a violent marriage.

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Through a blend of photographs and aging footage, we watch the lanky boy grow taller but never wider, and learn with horror of the electric-shock treatment administered to him in his youth.

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At present, the most common treatment is to administer a massive (and painful) electric shock.

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