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Death From Electrical Convulsion Therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

F. J. Napier
F. J. Napier*
Affiliation:
Carlton Hayes Hospital, Leicestershire
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Ten years have elapsed since the introduction by Meduna in 1934 of convulsion therapy, and five since Cerletti and Bini first described the use of electricity as a convulsant. A not unreasonable early prejudice finds a later echo in the comment of Critchley (1943) that convulsion therapy “is crude, dangerous and repellent to anyone who holds the central nervous system in respect.”

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 90 , Issue 381 , October 1944 , pp. 875 - 878
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1944 

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