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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
EDWARD SHORTER is the Jason A. Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is the author of numerous books, including A History of Psychiatry and Before Prozac. DAVID HEALY is a professor of psychiatry in the department of psychological medicine at Cardiff University and the author of numerous books, including Let Them Eat Prozac. He was secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology.
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
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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