Shock therapy a history of electroconvulsive treatment in mental illness /

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Autor Principal: Shorter, Edward
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Outros autores: Healy, David, MRC Psych
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.
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Table of 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.