November 23, 2007
'Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness'
As a psychiatric treatment, elec- troconvulsive therapy has had an image problem. One result, say Edward Shorter and David Healy, was the near absence for decades of what is a very effective approach to mental illness — in particular severe depression with suicidal inclinations.
Now in the midst of a revival, ECT offers hope to a large number of people unresponsive to psychopharmaceuticals, say Mr. Shorter, a professor of the history of medicine at the University of Toronto,
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