"Dane tried the window again, but it was hopeless. There would be no escape this time. Buehl couldn't risk it. The chock treatment - or whatever Buehl would use under the name of shock treatment - would begin at once. It would be easy to slip, to use an overdose or something, to make sure Dane was killed. Or there were ways of making sure it didn't matter. The could leave him alive, but take his mind away. In alien hands, human psychiatry could do worse than all the medieval torture chambers!"
From "Dead Ringer"
By Lester Del Ray.
1956.