Saturday, June 30, 2012

SHOCK TREATMENT


Psychiatry

  • A form of aversion therapy, such as:
    • Electroconvulsive therapy, or electroshock, a psychiatric treatment in which seizures are electrically induced in anaesthetized patients for therapeutic effect
    • Insulin shock therapy, a form of psychiatric treatment in which patients were repeatedly injected with large doses of insulin in order to produce daily comas

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