Electric shock therapy in the treatment of a depressed paraplegic Two aqueous suspensions, one containing crystals of uniform size and the other containing colloidal particles, were made with each of seven solid contact p... JE Pisetsky,FS Klaf - 《Am J Psychiatry》 被引量: 0发表: 1958年 ...
What Is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)? Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a type of therapy in which electric currents are passed through the brain. This can cause brief seizures and changes in brain chemistry. ECT is also known as shock therapy. ...
Novels like Asylum in 1961 and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1962, as well as the film based on the latter novel, released in 1975, are thought to have fueled some of that backlash by emphasizing the worst characterization of this treatment as shock therapy. The anti-psychiatry ...
animals could not use electricity for nerve conduction - or to deliver shocks. Furthermore, 'water and electricity do not mix' so the idea of an 'electric fish' was generally not accepted.Bancroft, E. An essay on the natural history of Guiana, London:T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, ...
It’s hard to keep up with the treatment recommendations coming out of the medical community. One day something is good for you, and the next day it’s deadly and should be avoided. Addictive drugs like heroin were given to kids to cure coughs, electric shock therapy has been a long use...
The case of the divergent investigations of alternating- versus direct-current electric shock therapy is particularly illustrative.doi:10.1007/978-0-387-79403-7_2Hana AkselrodMark W. KrollMichael V. OrlovSpringer USAkselrod H, Kroll MW, Orlov MV. History of defibrillation. In: Efimov IR, Kroll...
debate on brainwashing. At the same time, there were dramatic developments in neuroscience and the elaboration of ‘psycho-surgery’. Some pundits heralded the great advances made in mental health treatment for all, thanks to the advent of electric-shock therapy and new techniques of brain surgery...
An offshoot of these techniques was “aversion therapy,” which was founded on the premise that if LGBTQ people became disgusted by homosexuality, they would no longer experience same-sex desire. Under medical supervision, people were given chemicals that made them vomit when they, for example, ...
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‘Funk Therapy’, a 1975 treatise on vitamins, is typical of his erudite style: “Vitamins go through periods of fashion ... Vitamin B12 is popular, probably because it is often injected and is red.” Jukes commented on many environmental issues from a biochemical perspective, discussing a ...