electroshock therapy
noun
: the treatment of mental illness and especially depression by the application of electric current to the head of a usually anesthetized patient that induces unconsciousness and convulsive seizures in the brain
called also electroconvulsive therapy
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Goldberg also opened up about what her mom experienced on Wednesday’s episode of The View, revealing that her father forced her mother to get the electroshock therapy treatments.
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Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2024
Montgomery described one specific example of electroshock therapy, which paired the procedure with psychological conditioning.
—Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
Arthur, regarded as the patriarch of the Sacklers, became interested in pharmaceutical alternatives to midcentury psychoanalysis and electroshock therapy.
—Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 10 Aug. 2023
The organisation also donates to the Judge Rotenberg Center who performs electroshock therapy on autistic children (yes, that is somehow legal).
—Imani Barbarin, refinery29.com, 30 Aug. 2021
Eighteen days later, Eagleton withdrew his candidacy, following revelations he had been hospitalized for depression and treated with electroshock therapy.
—Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
The electroshock therapy doesn’t go as planned.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 23 Sep. 2022
Everything around the case has been fictionalized, including the real name of Ettore and the dynamic of the family behind his brutalization — though not the horrific electroshock therapy he’s forced to undergo.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2022
Eagleton, a Missouri Democrat and a vice-presidential nominee in 1972, had been hospitalized three times for depression and undergone electroshock therapy, a revelation that derailed his chance to serve in the White House.
—Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2024
Montgomery described one specific example of electroshock therapy, which paired the procedure with psychological conditioning.
—Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
Arthur, regarded as the patriarch of the Sacklers, became interested in pharmaceutical alternatives to midcentury psychoanalysis and electroshock therapy.
—Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 10 Aug. 2023
The organisation also donates to the Judge Rotenberg Center who performs electroshock therapy on autistic children (yes, that is somehow legal).
—Imani Barbarin, refinery29.com, 30 Aug. 2021
Eighteen days later, Eagleton withdrew his candidacy, following revelations he had been hospitalized for depression and treated with electroshock therapy.
—Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
The electroshock therapy doesn’t go as planned.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 23 Sep. 2022
Everything around the case has been fictionalized, including the real name of Ettore and the dynamic of the family behind his brutalization — though not the horrific electroshock therapy he’s forced to undergo.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2022
Eagleton, a Missouri Democrat and a vice-presidential nominee in 1972, had been hospitalized three times for depression and undergone electroshock therapy, a revelation that derailed his chance to serve in the White House.
—Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
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