NOUN | an electroshock therapy | electroshock therapies | |
SYNO | ECT | electroconvulsive therapy | electroshock | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- He experienced several nervous breakdowns, was hospitalized, and was subjected to electroshock therapy.
- This exacerbated his condition, and he was transferred to Val-de-Grâce military hospital, where he was given large doses of sedatives and psychoactive drugs, and subjected to electroshock therapy.
- During her tenure at the Ministry of Health, through her circular "Circolare Bindi del 2 dicembre 1996", electroshock therapy was re-introduced in Italy to treat psychiatrised patients.
- Plant experienced major depression and was treated with electroshock therapy.
- To combat the depression during her pregnancy she underwent electroshock therapy.
- In another study, The Body Image of Schizophrenic Children Following Electroshock Therapy, Bender incorporated ECT and a child's self-image.
- In the early 1950s, patients with porphyrias (occasionally referred to as "porphyric hemophilia") and severe symptoms of depression or catatonia were treated with electroshock therapy.
- She reveals she underwent electroshock therapy in the mental hospital and becomes increasingly distraught.
- Eagleton withdrew from the race just 19 days later after it was disclosed that he had previously undergone mental health treatment, including electroshock therapy, and he was replaced on the ballot by Sargent Shriver of Maryland, a Kennedy in-law.
- He was diagnosed as manic depressive and received electroshock therapy.
- The institution refused, giving him many forms of therapy, including electroshock therapy.
- 15. Breggin, Peter. “Electroshock Therapy and Brain Damage: The Acute Organic Brain Syndrome as Treatment.” Behavior and Brain Sciences, 7:24-25, 1984.
- She has also claimed that: "I've been through a rape, and electroshock therapy is worse".
- Reforms were made after a series of deaths at the Queen Street Mental Health Centre and newspaper accounts of involuntary drug treatment, electroshock therapy, and prison-like conditions.
- The Surgeon General stated there were problems with electroshock therapy in the initial years before anesthesia was routinely given, and that "these now-antiquated practices contributed to the negative portrayal of ECT in the popular media."
- Ewan McGregor co-stars in the role of Curt Wild, a genre-defying performer who doesn't back down from sex, nudity or drugs on or off stage and whose biographical details are based on Iggy Pop (who grew up in a trailer park) and Lou Reed (whose parents sent him to electroshock therapy to 'cure' his homosexual feelings).
- Following nearly a year of recovery, including physical and electroshock therapy, Mustaine began work on what was to have been his first solo album.
- Noticing that Giorgia has been wounded by electroshock therapy, he decides to remove her from the institution and take her along with him and Nicola—who are about to go on a trip to Norway.
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