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Shock Therapy: The History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness
Shock Therapy The History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness
Author: Edward Shorter, David Healy
Shock therapy is making a comeback today in the treatment of serious mental illness. Despite its reemergence as a safe and effective psychiatric tool, however, it continues to be shrouded by a longstanding negative public image, not least due to films such as the classic One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, where the inmate of a psychiatric clinic (...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780813541693
ISBN-10: 0813541697
Publication Date: 9/30/2007
Pages: 382
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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