shock therapy
noun
: the treatment of mental illness by the artificial induction of coma or convulsions through use of drugs or electric current
called also shock treatment
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The intimate scene is followed by a look at Malone, now with his normal facial art, standing by men in lab coats as Swift receives shock therapy.
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Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2024
The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center can continue to use electric shock therapy on patients with developmental and intellectual disabilities, but state agencies can challenge the practice on a case-by-case basis in probate court, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday.
—John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
Rotenberg is the only facility in the nation to use shock therapy, which disability activists condemn as a form of abuse.
—John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
But in its ruling, the court affirmed the finding of a lower court that the state had improperly used its regulatory powers in an effort to force the center to close down and that as of 2016 there was no medical consensus for or against the use of electric shock therapy.
—John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
Nostrums such as shock therapy and stem cells rose and fell, dividing the community in their wake.
—Jason Mast Reprints, STAT, 30 June 2023
Interwoven with this harrowing familial story is the history of how the science on schizophrenia has fitfully evolved, from the eras of institutionalization and shock therapy, to the profound disagreements about the cause and origins of the illness, to the search for genetic markers.
—Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2020
One of my favorites was electric shock therapy.
—Longreads, 4 Mar. 2020
In a nutshell, in the 1970s the church preached that homosexuality was a terrible sin, excommunicated members for being gay, encouraged electric shock therapy at BYU and told gay men that if they’d just get married in the temple to a righteous woman, they’d be cured.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 June 2022
Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2024
The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center can continue to use electric shock therapy on patients with developmental and intellectual disabilities, but state agencies can challenge the practice on a case-by-case basis in probate court, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday.
—John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
Rotenberg is the only facility in the nation to use shock therapy, which disability activists condemn as a form of abuse.
—John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
But in its ruling, the court affirmed the finding of a lower court that the state had improperly used its regulatory powers in an effort to force the center to close down and that as of 2016 there was no medical consensus for or against the use of electric shock therapy.
—John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
Nostrums such as shock therapy and stem cells rose and fell, dividing the community in their wake.
—Jason Mast Reprints, STAT, 30 June 2023
Interwoven with this harrowing familial story is the history of how the science on schizophrenia has fitfully evolved, from the eras of institutionalization and shock therapy, to the profound disagreements about the cause and origins of the illness, to the search for genetic markers.
—Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2020
One of my favorites was electric shock therapy.
—Longreads, 4 Mar. 2020
In a nutshell, in the 1970s the church preached that homosexuality was a terrible sin, excommunicated members for being gay, encouraged electric shock therapy at BYU and told gay men that if they’d just get married in the temple to a righteous woman, they’d be cured.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 June 2022
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