10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY»
Discover the use of
electroshock therapy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
electroshock therapy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Electroshock : Healing Mental Illness: Healing Mental Illness
Electroshock therapy has long suffered from a controversial and bizarre public image, effectively removing it as a treatment option for many patients.
Stony Max Fink Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology Emeritus State University of New York, 1999
2
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
This was especially true of Hans Wilhelm Konig, who responded enthusiastically
to the plan, arranging not only for male "schizoid" inmates to be brought to the
hospital block for electroshock therapy but taking the unusual step of having ...
3
World War II: Neuropsychiatric Casualties, Out of Sight, Out ...
The patients that I decided should have electroshock therapy were those who
were grossly psychotic, very frightened by their hallucinations and delusions, and
often so disturbed on their hospital ward that they were difficult to care for and ...
Louis A. Gottschalk, 2004
4
William Faulkner and Joan Williams: The Romance of Two Writers
Dr. Adler also said that he never prescribed electroshock therapy for the author.
Before the use of electroshock at Gartly-Ramsay, physicians there used Metrazol
shock for depression. According to Dr. Adler, Metrazol was the intravenous ...
5
Beat Culture: Lifestyles, Icons, and Impact
... saner and shrewder than the people who are supposed to cure the sick. While
the use of electricity to treat mental problems dates back to the ancient Romans,
the modern beginning of electroshock therapy is usually credited to Ugo Cerletti,
...
6
Sylvia Plath: A Biography
At his recommendation, Aurelia reluctantly agreed to allow her daughter to
undergo electroshock therapy on an outpatient basis to treat her for severe
depression. Sylvia had her first treatment on Wednesday, July 29, 1953, marked
in her ...
7
Obsessive-compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting ...
... people may find themselves taking the medications for only a few months a
year or every few years. This type of intermittent OCSD, however, is probably
more the exception than the rule. ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY Electroshock
therapy, ...
8
Mental Ills and Bodily Cures: Psychiatric Treatment in the ...
... in Ten Cases," American Journal of the Medical Sciences 196 (1938): 420-428.
20. The definitive history of electroshock therapy has yet to be written. There are
a number of informative articles, often written by the participants themselves.
9
Introduction to Social Work & Social Welfare: Critical ...
Note that psychotropic drugs are not used for all disorders and that many other
methods of treatment exist and are being developed. Focus on Critical Thinking
13.2 examines the comeback of electroshock therapy. Mezzo Practice: Running ...
10
Short-Term Treatment in Occupational
Therapy
ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY Electroshock therapy no longer plays a significant
role in the treatment of the acute schizophrenic episode. Some catatonic patients
will not respond to injectable neuroleptics and thus there is little choice other ...
Kathy Kaplan, Diane Gibson, 2014
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
electroshock therapy is used in the context of the following news items.
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I know what you're thinking, electroshock therapy is something you've heard about in scary stories about mental patients, and you're not one of ... «BGR, Jul 15»
The Mentally Ill Have Never Had It Easy
Ernest Hemingway's suicide note and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar are quoted on electroshock therapy, but by and large the suffering of the ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
Why Glitch is more like Casper The Friendly Ghost than The Walking …
McFarlane knew he could do scary because last year he played the sinister Dr Milson, who gives electroshock therapy to gay men, in A Place ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
Midnighter in the garden of gay & evil
Lou Reed was given electroshock therapy when he was young. I didn't even realize it until I thought about it a little more right here, but there is ... «Dallas Voice, Jul 15»
11 Things You Didn't Know About Ernest Hemingway
... of Hemingway losing it in his final years -- which partially led to extensive electroshock therapy -- with the author actually being right. 6. «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
The Hidden Story of Henrietta Bingham
Her treatment later in her life includes a devastating regimen of medications and electroshock therapy. A lobotomy was repeatedly ... «Louisville.com, Jul 15»
The Huge Victory for LGBT Rights Everyone Missed Amidst the …
In past decades, the actual "therapy" often included electroshock therapy; more recently, conversion therapy has involved the use of oranges as ... «Pacific Standard, Jul 15»
'Return to Oz' Turns 30: A tribute to the scariest children's movie of …
electroshock therapy. Meanwhile, the screams of men imprisoned in the clinic's basement filter up from below. Did I mention that Worley's ... «HitFix, Jun 15»
Are you becoming who you really wanted to be?
They wanted Paolo to become a lawyer so they had him subjected to electroshock therapy to “drive these destructive notions” of becoming a ... «ABS CBN News, Jun 15»
Hundreds march for LGBT rights
McALLEN — A black-and-white film depicting electroshock therapy sessions and experimental drugs used to treat homosexuality in the 1960s ... «Monitor, Jun 15»
