electroshock therapy
electric shock therapy

Steve says, he's a bit weird because he had electroshock therapy.

Many patients, doctors say, have endured years of electroshock therapy.

Of those who do not, about half recover from depression with electroshock therapy.

Before, it might have taken him two weeks to escape the fog brought on by the electroshock therapy.

He had a job administering electroshock therapy at a psychiatric hospital.

Nor does the treatment appear to have the serious side effects, like memory loss, of electroshock therapy.

A typical course of electroshock therapy involves six to 10 sessions, usually given three times a week.

But I do know that you don't give a person electroshock therapy to restore memories.

She reveals she is starting electroshock therapy the next day.

They're saying some extreme things that nobody can agree with unless you've had electroshock therapy."

Later, electroshock therapy and lobotomies were practiced at the facility.

To combat the depression during her pregnancy she underwent electroshock therapy.

She went on to state, "I've been through a rape, and electroshock therapy is worse.

Use of electroshock therapy has risen gradually since the early 1970's.

But in about 80 percent of cases, the report said, electroshock therapy can lift their depression within a few weeks, restoring them to mental health.

Walter would have been subjected to electroshock therapy, so that was something I looked into, what the short- and long-term effects might be.

While lobotomy has been abandoned, electroshock therapy is still used to treat depression.

During her stay, she talked to psychiatrists, had electroshock therapy and made necklaces with beads.

"He's acting like he just had electroshock therapy."

He received medication and electroshock therapy by force.

The organization is especially focused on fighting involuntary medication and the forced use of electroshock therapy.

Use of electroshock therapy in animal tests has shown this treatment to be useless and potentially dangerous.

But electroshock therapy is so severely restricted by Texas law as to be unavailable for patients treated in public facilities.

There, he said, she is given drugs and electric shock therapy.

Electric shock therapy is used only in certain cases, with anesthesia.

She was given a treatment called electric shock therapy.

For years, he said, he was a member of the team that performed electric shock therapy.

Mentally ill patients were subjected to, amongst other things, electric shock therapy.

These methods included intense electric shock therapy that were later proven to be more damaging than helpful.

In the past, some doctors have used electric shock therapy, although their claims of success have been challenged by other doctors.

Case study: Electric shock therapy in China for internet 'addiction'

Munch committed himself several times for treatment of alcoholism and depression and underwent electric shock therapy.

Following nearly a year of recovery, including physical and electric shock therapy, Mustaine began work on what was to be his first solo album.

David wins the competition, but suffers a mental breakdown and is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, where he receives electric shock therapy.

When he was younger he was given electric shock therapy that leaves him permanently brain damaged.

Electric shock therapy was supposed to cure paralysis, gout, haemorrhoids, epilepsy.

That incident caused him to be put in a mental hospital, where he was given electric shock therapy that erased his childhood memories.

Jean is then captured by Shakti and given electric shock therapy until she is unconscious.

Cuthbert was one of the pioneers of electric shock therapy for treating mental illness.

As if that weren't enough, it soon became public that Eagleton had had treatment, including electric shock therapy, for depression.

Turkey should immediately ban unmodified electric shock therapy and limit the use of modified therapy to cases in which it is medically indicated.

And what made it especially noteworthy is that the program also included a Soviet group, EST (Electric Shock Therapy).

Earlier in his life he had suffered a nervous breakdown and spent several months in a treatment facility in north London, where he received electric shock therapy.

At the end of the film we learn through on screen text that Shelly lost 17 pounds after discharge and underwent electric shock therapy to treat her depression.

Turkey's psychiatric system, the group found, makes widespread and indiscriminate use of unmodified electric shock therapy - electroshock that is administered without muscle relaxants or anesthesia.

In 1952, following a second marriage and the birth of a son, Beirne, Lowry was diagnosed a schizophrenic and forced to undergo electric shock therapy.

Hecht spent three months in hospital following his breakdown, although he was spared electric shock therapy, unlike Sylvia Plath, whom he had encountered while teaching at Smith College.