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Pushbutton Psychiatry A Cultural History of Electric Shock Therapy in America 1st Edition by Timothy Kneeland, Carol Warren 9781598747324 1598747320

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Author(s): Timothy W. Kneeland, Carol A.B. Warren
ISBN(s): 9781598747324, 1598747320
Edition: New Updated Edition
File Details: PDF, 1.02 MB
Year: 2008
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1598747320

ISBN 13: 9781598747324

Author: Timothy W. Kneeland, Carol A.B. Warren

This volume uncovers the roots of electroshock in America, an outgrowth of western patriarchal medicine with primarily female patients. The authors trace the history of electroshock in the United States in three historic stages: from an enthusiastic reception in 1940, to a period of crisis in the 1960s, to its resurgence after 1980. Early American experiments with electrical medicine are also examined, while the development of electroshock in America is considered through the lens of social, political, and economic factors. The revival of electroshock in recent decades is found to be a product of growing materialism in American psychiatry and the political and economic realities of managed medical care. The new material in the Updated Paperback Edition describes the resurgence of electroshock in the private psychiatric sector as a treatment of choice for depression.

Table of contents:

Part I: The Electrotherapeutic Origins of Pushbutton Psychiatry

1 The Eighteenth Century: The Electric Stage

2 The Nineteenth Century: The Woman on the Couch

Part II: The Electroconvulsive Century

3 The Birth and Triumph of Pushbutton Psychiatry: Electroshock

4 Rage Against the Machine: The Decline of Electroshock

5 Pushbutton Triumphant: The Rebirth of Electroshock

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