Erratum to: Observations on electric shock therapy

Electric shock in patients administered to hospital: a descriptive study

Regressive electric shock therapy; preliminary report on 100 cases.

This paper will present the results of experience with "regressive electroshock treatment" (hereafter referred to as REST) in 100 cases over the six years following 1948. This method has been described previously by Milligan, 1 Kennedy and Anchell, 2 Rothschild et al., 3 WeiP and others. However, in spite of the years since the initial report in 1946, few hospitMs ~have adopted the method. At t...

electric shock in patients administered to hospital: a descriptive study

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The intensive electric shock therapy of chronic disturbed psychotic patients.

279 Intensive electric shock therapy, i.e., therapy given daily or oftener, has become a validated procedure in the management of acute excitement states( 1-3). This type of treatment has been advocated for curative purposes in both neurotic(4) and psychotic (5, 6) illnesses. It has also been used in the management of chronic psychotic patients (7, 8). This report deals with the use of intensiv...

Regressive electric-shock in schizophrenics refractory to other shock therapies.