Edward Shorter, David Healy

Shock Therapy

A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Traces the controversial history of ECT and other shock therapies. Drawing on case studies, public debates, extensive interviews, and archival research, the authors expose the myths about ECT that have proliferated over the years. By showing ECT's often life-saving results, they endorse a point of view that is hotly contested in professional circles and in public debates, but for the nearly half of all clinically depressed patients who do not respond to drugs, this book brings much needed hope.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9780813554259
• ISBN-10: 081355425X
• Artikelnr.: 36805682

Autorenporträt

Shorter, Edward

Inhaltsangabe

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