Word: arnot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knows why the treatment helps, but it usually does. Boston Psychiatrist Robert Arnot theorizes that "when an intense, hard-driving person overdrives himself, the nervous system just won't turn off; shock turns off the mind and stops the patient from thinking about whatever it is that he is preoccupied with." Other experts suggest that the shock somehow shakes up the brain so that "things fall back into their normal places." It is largely because of the lack of scientific understanding about its workings that many psychiatrists distrust the treatment...