Shock therapy : a history of electroconvulsive treatment in mental illness / Edward Shorter, David Healy.

  • Shorter, Edward.
Date:
[2007], ©2007
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Publication/Creation

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2007], ©2007.

Physical description

xii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-362) and index.

Contents

The penicillin of psychiatry? -- "Some experiments on the biological influencing of the course of schizophrenia" -- "Madness cured with electricity" -- From the university clinic to the psychiatric institute: shock therapy goes global -- The couch or the treatment table? -- "ECT does not create zombies" -- "They're going to fry your brains!" -- The end of "Bedlam" and the age of psychopharmacology -- The swinging pendulum: the effects of politics, law, and changes in medical culture on ECT -- Electrogirl and the new ECT -- Magnets and implants: new therapies for a new century? -- Epilogue: irrational science.

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  • 9780813541693
  • 0813541697