Pushbutton Psychiatry: A Cultural History of Electric Shock Therapy in America, Updated Paperback Edition

by TimothyW.KneelandandCarolA.B.Warren (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $41.25

  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.