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Simone D., a pseudonym for a psychiatric patient in the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in New York, [10] who in 2007 won a court ruling which set aside a two-year-old court order to give her electroshock treatment against her will [11] [12] Duplessis Orphans Orphans of the 1950s in the province of Quebec, Canada, endured electroshock.
ECT became popular in the US in the 1940s. At the time, psychiatric hospitals were overrun with patients whom doctors were desperate to treat and cure. Whereas lobotomies would reduce a patient to a more manageable submissive state, ECT helped to improve mood in those with severe depression. A survey of psychiatric practice in the late 1980s ...
Shock therapy describes a set of techniques used in psychiatry to treat depressive disorder or other mental illnesses. It covers multiple forms, such as inducing seizures or other extreme brain states, or acting as a painful method of aversive conditioning. [1] Two types of shock therapy are currently practiced:
With each successive treatment, the patient is left with an ongoing loss of memory which will gradually clear after the course of therapy is finished”. [7] “ Patients usually receive 6 to 12 treatments for full therapeutic benefit, but the number of ECT applications is titrated individually for each case”. [ 5 ]
In the study of people ages 65 and older, 8.15% of women treated by female physicians died within 30 days, compared with 8.38% of women treated by male physicians.
In 1927, Sakel, who had recently qualified as a medical doctor in Vienna and was working in a psychiatric clinic in Berlin, began to use low (sub-coma) doses of insulin to treat drug addicts and psychopaths, and when one of the patients experienced improved mental clarity after having slipped into an accidental coma, Sakel reasoned the treatment might work for mentally ill patients. [3]
Hospice doctors, they said, visited at-home patients only on rare occasions. Patients have suffered as a result, they said. One nurse, Diane Langella, a former weekend triage manager for Vitas, said she quit last year because she couldn’t cope with the stress of handling the complaints anymore.
In a wilderness context where counseling, psychotherapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy is unlikely to be available, the treatment for acute stress reaction is very similar to the treatment of cardiogenic shock, vascular shock, and hypovolemic shock; that is, allowing the patient to lie down, providing reassurance, and removing the stimulus ...