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Electric shock therapy in the psychoses: Convulsive and subconvulsive methods

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    A brief review of the literature on electric shock therapy is presented.

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    Fifty cases of moderately chronic psychoses received over 1,000 electric shock treatments in convulsive and subconvulsive doses; and the technic, complications, hazards of treatment, contraindicatons, results, and other observations are discussed.

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    A comparative study between electric shock and pharmacologic shock therapy as well as between two methods of electric shock therapy, i.e., the convulsive and subconvulsive, is presented.

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Androp, S. Electric shock therapy in the psychoses: Convulsive and subconvulsive methods. Psych Quar 15, 730–749 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01585127

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