Shock therapy
Subtitle: a history of electroconvulsive treatment in mental illness
By: Edward Shorter, David Healy.
Contributors: Healy, David, MRC Psych.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813541693
Subjects: Electroconvulsive therapy -- History; Electroconvulsive Therapy -- history; History, 20th Century; Mental Disorders -- therapy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The penicillin of psychiatry?; title: Some experiments on the biological influencing of the course of schizophrenia; title: Madness cured with electricity; title: From the university clinic to the psychiatric institute: shock therapy goes global; title: The couch or the treatment table?; title: ECTdoes not create zombies; title: They're going to fry your brains!; title: The end of "Bedlam" and the age of psychopharmacology; title: The swinging pendulum; title: Electrogirl and the new ECT; title: Magnets & implants: new therapies for a new century?; title: Epilogue: irrational science.