Shock therapy a history of electroconvulsive treatment in mental illness /

Main Author: Shorter, Edward.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Healy, David, MRC Psych.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10635022
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300 |a xii, 382 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-362) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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