1st Edition
Electroconvulsive Therapy in America The Anatomy of a Medical Controversy
By Jonathan Sadowsky
Copyright 2017
172 Pages
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Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
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Electroconvulsive Therapy is widely demonized or idealized. Some detractors consider its very use to be a human rights violation, while some promoters depict it as a miracle, the "penicillin of psychiatry." This book traces the American history of one of the most controversial procedures in medicine, and seeks to provide an explanation of why ECT has been so controversial, juxtaposing evidence... Read more
Introduction
1. Origins and Origin Myths
2. Trying to Make Progress
3. Therapeutic Disciplines
4. "What of His Psychology?": ECT and Psychoanalysis
5. "Total Rejection of Psychiatry": ECT and the Antipsychiatry Movement
6. The History of a Side Effect: ECT and Memory Loss
Conclusion
Biography
Jonathan Sadowsky is the Theodore J. Castele Professor of Medical History at Case Western Reserve University.
