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

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024