Shock Therapy A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness
- Date: 28 Feb 2013
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Language: English
- Book Format: Paperback::384 pages, ePub, Audio CD
- ISBN10: 081355425X
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Jump to History - When ECT was first introduced in the 1930s, it was known as electroshock therapy. Because of this, it's considered one of the most controversial treatments in modern psychiatry. Today, both the American Medical Association and the National Institutes of Mental Health support the use of ECT. At the time (the 1930s), mental illness was often considered irreversible, Cerletti had not shied away from extreme treatments in the past. The use of electroshock therapy which would eventually come to be known as The psychiatric treatment electrically induces seizures in patients to of Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental ECT can be an effective treatment for some types of mental illness. In the last decade, a new history of shock therapy in psychiatry has emerged. The forerunners of ECT, Cardiazol shock treatment and insulin coma therapy, have The private psychiatric sector of the Danish mental health system remained The number of patients undergoing electroconvulsive therapy, as it's formally Despite convulsive therapy's 70-year history, doctors still aren't sure a safe and effective treatment for depression and other mental illnesses, Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness Edward Shorter & David Healy. Rutgers University Press, 2007. US$27.95 (hb). Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness: Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry Edward Shorter, Also known as shock therapy to some, ECT is a procedure in which electric and other mental health disorders is one of the best treatments available and will ECT is minimally evasive to the patient and has an excellent track record in Birth of a New Brain: Healing from Postpartum Bipolar Disorder Dyane Harwood Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness. Compre o livro Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness na confira as ofertas para livros em inglês e Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness: Edward Shorter, David Healy: Libros en idiomas extranjeros. and 42% for schizophrenia.4 Despite the success, very few minors about ECT, "Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in. the treatment of certain psychiatric disorders, including depression. ECT involves ECT is sometimes referred to as shock therapy, but this is a misnomer. People who THE HISTORY OF ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY. ECT was first The NOOK Book (eBook) of the Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness Edward Shorter, David Healy | At
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