Word: electroshocks
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...getting solid food during this week, they were switched to semisolid. They got five units of insulin half an hour before each meal. With the onset of deep sleep, patients were wakened three times a day for meals and toileting. By the tenth day they were put on intensive electroshock treatment-usually one treatment daily, and often receiving four or five shocks in two to three minutes-far more intensive than previously tried shock treatments. Said Dr. Cameron: "The rate is set so that complete depatterning is achieved between the 13th and 16th days, after about 30 shock treatments. Complete...
...year-old Patriarch was appointed by the Russian Patriarch Alexei. Justinian's function: to help the Communists control Rumania's staunchly religious peasantry. Called in during one of the bearded Patriarch's vice-and-vodka loops, Dr. Cohen prescribed six months' psychoanalysis and electroshock therapy, but achieved no result. Says he: "The Patriarch's conflicts are insoluble...
...quick to question the extreme optimism of the Californians' findings. Elsewhere, the drug has been tested and found helpful but no cureall, or even a cure at all, for mental illness. One advantage on which most researchers who have tried it agree: reserpine should reduce the need for electroshock treatments...