Shock therapy : a history of electroconvulsive treatment in mental illness / Edward Shorter, David Healy.
Pubblicazione:
New Brunswick : Rutgers university press, c2007.
Descrizione fisica:
XII, 382 p. : ritr. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of illustrations. Acknowledgments. 1. The penicillin of psychiatry? 2. Some experiments on the biological influencing of the course of schizophrenia 3. Madness cured with electricity 4. From the university clinic to the psychiatric institute: shock therapy goes global 5. The couch or the treatment table? 6. ECT does not create zombies 7. They're going to fry your brains! 8. The end of Bedlam and the age of psychopharmacology 9. The swinging pendulum: the effects of politics, law, and changes in medical culture on ECT 10. Electrogirl and the new ECT 11. Magnets and implants: new therapies for a new century? 12. Epilogue: irrational science. Notes. Index
