shock therapy

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electroconvulsive therapy
You can refer to the use of extreme policies or actions to solve a particular problem quickly as shock therapy. Prague's policy of economic shock therapy. = shock treatment
Shock therapy is a way of treating mentally ill patients by passing an electric current through their brain. = shock treatment. Any of various treatments for mental disorders, such as major depression or schizophrenia, in which a convulsion or brief coma is induced by administering a drug or passing an electric current through the brain. Also called shock treatment. Method of treating psychiatric disorders by inducing shock through drugs or electric current. Shock was formerly induced by administering increasingly large doses of insulin until the patient was thrown into a brief coma; insulin-shock therapy was used for the treatment of schizophrenia. Electroconvulsive, or electroshock, therapy involves passing an electric current through the patient's head between two electrodes placed over the temples and thus causing a convulsive seizure; it was used for bipolar disorder and other types of depression. Both forms of shock therapy were developed in the 1930s; their use has declined since the introduction of tranquilizing drugs and antidepressants
treatment of certain psychotic states by the administration of shocks that are followed by convulsions
form of medical treatment that uses electric shocks

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electric shock therapy
a method of treatment for mental illness that involves sending electricity through someone's brain = ECT
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