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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › William_SargantWilliam Sargant - Wikipedia

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   William Walters Sargant (24 April 1907 – 27 August 1988) was a British psychiatrist who is remembered for the evangelical zeal with which he promoted treatments such as psychosurgery, deep sleep treatment, electroconvulsive therapy and insulin shock therapy.

2. www.vox.com › the-highlight › 2019/5/14Electroconvulsive therapy: its dark past and hopeful future ...

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   May 14, 2019 · Celebrities like Kitty Dukakis and Carrie Fisher have come out loudly in favor of ECT, which research shows can work well for people experiencing severe, treatment-resistant depression.

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3. www.psychologytoday.com › gb › blogA Brief History of Electroconvulsive Therapy | Psychology ...

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   Nov 3, 2018 · In 1938, Cerletti and his psychiatrist colleague Lucio Bini developed the first ECT device and treated their first human patient, a diagnosed schizophrenic with delusions, hallucinations, and...

4. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsElectroconvulsive therapy for depression: 80 years of progress

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   Mar 18, 2021 · Electroconvulsive therapy is the most effective treatment for severe, psychotic or treatment-resistant depression. However, its effectiveness continues to be questioned, both in mainstream media and narratives within the scientific literature.

5. scienceline.org › 2018 › 06Once deemed brutal, a decades-old therapy is helping doctors ...

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   Jun 4, 2018 · Adam, who shared medical documents outlining his treatment on the condition that his last name be withheld for privacy, still suffers from anxiety and depression, but says the intense bouts have become less frequent.

6. www.mind-diagnostics.org › blog › depressionThe History of Depression: Causes and Treatment

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   Nov 4, 2020 · In this book, he outlined the psychological and social causes of depression including fear, poverty, and social isolation. In his book he listed some options of treatments for depression including diet, travel, exercise, marriage, purgatives, distraction, herbs, bloodletting, and music therapy.

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   Who invented electroconvulsive therapy?

   • Ugo Cerletti (1877-1963), the father of electroconvulsive therapy. Like many treatments in psychiatry and medicine more generally, ECT was discovered serendipitously (see Lieberman & Ogas, 2015). Early asylum keepers recognized that the symptoms of psychotic patients who also suffered from epilepsy seemed to improve after having a seizure.

   A Brief History of Electroconvulsive Therapy - Psychology Today

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   Can electroshock therapy cure depression?

   • Surgeon and author Sherwin Nuland discusses the development of electroshock therapy as a cure for severe, life-threatening depression -- including his own. It's a moving and heartfelt talk about relief, redemption and second chances. This talk was presented at an official TED conference.

   Sherwin Nuland: How electroshock therapy changed me | TED Talk

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   Is electric shock a good treatment for depression?

   • A 1940 New York Times article with the headline “Insanity Treated by Electric Shock” described the treatment as “safer than injections” and “less expensive and less disagreeable.” Over time, doctors learned that it was more useful for people with other types of illnesses — like severe depression that didn’t respond to other forms of treatment.

   Electroconvulsive therapy: its dark past and hopeful future as a ... - Vox

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   What is shock therapy?

   • She had heard the stories from Beatrice, her mother. Treatment for mental illness in those days was fairly limited, but the family doctor suggested that she try a revolutionary new method: “shock therapy,” or electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which involves using electricity to induce a seizure in the brain.

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   When was convulsive therapy invented?

   • Amazingly, Meduna noted that his patients' psychotic symptoms did, in fact, diminish after a Metrazol-induced seizure. This novel treatment quickly became known as convulsive therapy. In 1937, the first international conference on pharmacologic convulsive therapy was organized in Switzerland by the Swiss psychiatrist Max Müller.

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   How has depression been discovered in the history of mental health?

   • In the history of mental health, depression has been thoroughly researched in an attempt to understand the condition. The discovery of depression and the growth of knowledge about it can be attributed to many thinkers and scientists.

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8. www.ted.com › talks › sherwin_nuland_howSherwin Nuland: How electroshock therapy changed me | TED Talk

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   Surgeon and author Sherwin Nuland discusses the development of electroshock therapy as a cure for severe, life-threatening depression -- including his own. It's a moving and heartfelt talk about relief, redemption and second chances.