How to Use electroshock therapy in a Sentence

electroshock therapy

noun
  • The goons try to reprogram her through electroshock therapy.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 23 Sep. 2022
  • After the death of her beloved twin brother and the abandonment of her long-time lover, Greta Wells undergoes electroshock therapy.
    Emily Burack, Town & Country, 20 Mar. 2022
  • From ice-water plunges to the early days of electroshock therapy, from lobotomies (honored with a Nobel Prize in 1949) to Thorazine catatonia, its treatments belong to the pages of a dark dystopian novel.
    Thomas Curwenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
  • Depending on your views, he either administered electroshock therapy to the sport or disgraced it?
    Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 9 June 2019
  • But Garcia’s mother had no interest in returning to the country where her husband was forced to work in an internment camp and received electroshock therapy.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 30 Nov. 2019
  • Unfortunately, Mama doesn't have the answers — she's stuck in a dream circle reliving key moments in Eleven's abduction and her own electroshock therapy.
    Patti Greco, Cosmopolitan, 30 Oct. 2017
  • An earlier book, Loved, about a woman whose electroshock therapy sends her into alternate realities and times, is being developed for the screen by Madonna.
    Andy Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The organization 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
  • 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
  • Lou Reed famously was institutionalized around the same age and given electroshock therapy.
    Matthew Allan, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2023
  • At the age of 13, Topp was involuntarily committed to a state hospital and received electroshock therapy for an undefined mental illness.
    Jessica Pishko, Slate Magazine, 17 July 2017
  • 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
  • Also, how does simulated electroshock therapy have an impact on her real, tangible brain?
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 23 Sep. 2022
  • My therapists had recommended extreme treatments like electroshock therapy, a procedure that frightened me due to reports of memory loss from those who had undergone it, but had never mentioned this.
    Alice Levitt, Vox, 24 July 2018
  • Fisher’s honesty about her bipolar diagnosis, and her accounts of electroshock therapy, drew needed attention to mental-health issues.
    Celia Wren, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • Patients were physically restrained and often given inhumane treatments, such as electroshock therapy and lobotomies.
    Gulnaz Khan, National Geographic, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Holder's public defender, Aaron Jensen, said in court that Holder has a history of mental health issues, including undergoing electroshock therapy.
    Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 2 June 2022
  • His doctor diagnosed bipolar II disorder, and Dr. Rosenberg underwent electroshock therapy and took lithium.
    New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Doctors diagnosed him with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, leading him to receive electroshock therapy, before he was treated for an arteriovenous malformation in his brain.
    BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2021
  • During pre-trial hearings, Jansen argued that Holder has a history of mental health issues, including undergoing electroshock therapy.
    Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com, 6 July 2022
  • Using electricity to affect the brain makes tms sound similar to electroconvulsive therapy, alias electroshock therapy.
    David Freedman, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2013
  • Years earlier, Eagleton had been hospitalized and treated with electroshock therapy for depression.
    Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The Milgram Experiment was a medical treatment involving electroshock therapy.
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Some who have experienced them report being forced to ingest nausea-inducing drugs and subjected to electroshock therapy while viewing homoerotic images, practices designed to condition a negative reaction to their homosexual feelings.
    Robbie Short, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2018
  • 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
  • Astoundingly, in 2010, Elberling reported on a single case study where electroshock therapy (ECT) actually put severe chemical intolerances in remission.
    Jill Neimark, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2013
  • 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 practice sometimes included severe methods like institutionalization, castration and electroshock therapy.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Dec. 2020

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