1st Edition
Pushbutton Psychiatry A Cultural History of Electric Shock Therapy in America, Updated Paperback Edition
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume uncovers the roots of electroshock in America, an outgrowth of western patriarchal medicine with primarily female patients. The authors trace the history of electroshock in the United States in three historic stages: from an enthusiastic reception in 1940, to a period of crisis in the 1960s, to its resurgence after 1980. Early American experiments with electrical medicine are also... Read more
* Preface vii* Acknowledgments xv* Introduction to the Updated Edition: Electricity, Psychiatry, and American Culture xvii* Part I: The Electrotherapeutic Origins of Pushbutton Psychiatry 1* The Eighteenth Century: The Electric Stage 3* The Nineteenth Century: The Woman on the Couch 21* Part II: The Electroconvulsive Century 41* The Birth and Triumph of Pushbutton Psychiatry: Electroshock, 1938-1965 43* Rage Against the Machine: The Decline of Electroshock, 1966-1980 63* Pushbutton Triumphant: The Rebirth of Electroshock, 1981-1999 85* Epilogue to the Updated Edit
Biography
Timothy W Kneeland, Carol A.B. Warren
