A REVIEW OF THE DRASTIC SHOCK THERAPIES IN THE TREATMENT OF THE PSYCHOSES
Authors: Franklin G. Ebaugh
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1943)

Article1 March 1943A REVIEW OF THE DRASTIC SHOCK THERAPIES IN THE TREATMENT OF THE PSYCHOSESFRANKLIN G. EBAUGH, M.D., F.A.C.P.FRANKLIN G. EBAUGH, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-18-3-279 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptDuring the past decade we have seen progressive changes in medical education and practice which have led to closer relationships between psychiatry and general medicine. We now accept psychiatry as that part of medicine which deals with the pathology and therapy of the person, instead of thinking of it as an isolated specialty dealing with advanced psychopathological disorders usually already admitted to institutions for treatment in the later stages of development when therapy is most difficult, more prolonged and less effective. Through this breakdown of the isolation of psychiatric medicine from basic general medicine we are now beginning to see...Bibliography1. JESSNERRYAN LVG: Shock treatment in psychiatry, 1941, Grune and Stratton, New York. Google Scholar2. U. S. Public Health Service Shock Survey, 1941. Google Scholar3. FROSTIG JP: Clinical observations in insulin treatment in schizophrenia: preliminary report, Am. Jr. Psychiat., 1940, xcvi, 1167-1190. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. BRILLBINZILEY HRF: Involuntary eye movements—a criterion of depth of stages of insulin coma, Am. Jr. Psychiat., 1941, xcvi, 177-181. Google Scholar5. KATZENELBOGEN S: Pharmacological shock therapy, Chapter LI, Blumer's System for Practice of Medicine. Google Scholar6. ROSSMALZBERG JRB: A review of the results of the pharmacological shock therapy and the metrazol convulsive therapy in New York state, Am. Jr. Psychiat., 1939, xcvi, 297-316. CrossrefGoogle Scholar7. ROSSROSSMANCLINESCHWOERNMALZBERG JRJMWBCJB: A two year follow up study from the New York state hospitals with some recommendations for the future, Am. Jr. Psychiat., 1941, xcvii, 1007-1023. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8. CHENEYCLOW COHE: Prognostic factors in insulin shock therapy, Am. Jr. Psychiat., 1941, xcvii, 1029-1039. CrossrefGoogle Scholar9. RYMERBENJAMINEBAUGH CAJDFG: The hypoglycemic treatment of schizophrenia. A preliminary report, with particular reference to the qualitative study of remissions, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1937, cix, 1249-1251. CrossrefGoogle Scholar10. PIOTROWSKI Z: A simple experimental device for prediction of the outcome of insulin treatment in schizophrenia, Psychiat. Quart., 1940, xiv, 267-273. CrossrefGoogle Scholar11. BENNETT AE: Curare: A preventive of traumatic complications in convulsive shock therapy, Am. Jr. Psychiat., 1941, xcvii, 1040-1060. CrossrefGoogle Scholar12. WHITEHEADNEUBUERGERRUTLEDGESILCOTT RWKTEKWL: Pharmacologic and pathologic effects of repeated convulsant doses of metrazol, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1940, cxcix, 352-359. CrossrefGoogle Scholar13. CERLETTIBINI VL: L'elettroshock, Arch. gen. di neurol. e. psichiat., 1938, xix, 266-268. Google Scholar14. WHITEHEADNEUBUERGERRUTLEDGEEBAUGH RWKTEKFG: Pathologic changes in brains of dogs given repeated electric shocks, to be published in Am. Jr. Med. Sci. Google Scholar15. U. S. Public Health Service Shock Therapy. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Denver, Colorado*Morning lecture before the American College of Physicians meeting, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 24, 1942.From the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Colorado Psychopathic Hospital. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byUndoing Descartes: integrating diabetes care for those with mental illnessBibliographyEmprêgo do curare em convulsoterapiaChapter VII: Methods, Technics, and Instruments of Mental Hygiene Diagnosis and Therapy 1 March 1943Volume 18, Issue 3Page: 279-296KeywordsHospital medicineMedical educationPsychosesShock Issue Published: 1 March 1943 PDF downloadLoading ...