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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That solution is the ultimate shock therapy for putting the dollar in command for a foreign nation.
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Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
Her attorney, Jim Campbell, said Colorado is pointing to studies that lump together the kind of counseling Chiles wants to do with shock therapy and other aversive treatments that have been used in the past.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
Deinstitutionalization was driven by many forces, including survivors’ accounts ofelectric shock therapy and other abuses in state mental hospitals.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
The Kingdom has completed phase one of his plan: shock therapy.
—Ali Shihabi, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
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Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
Her attorney, Jim Campbell, said Colorado is pointing to studies that lump together the kind of counseling Chiles wants to do with shock therapy and other aversive treatments that have been used in the past.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
Deinstitutionalization was driven by many forces, including survivors’ accounts ofelectric shock therapy and other abuses in state mental hospitals.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
The Kingdom has completed phase one of his plan: shock therapy.
—Ali Shihabi, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Shock therapy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shock%20therapy. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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