Table of Contents: Shock therapy

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.
Subjects:	Electroconvulsive therapy > History.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10635022

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.