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Shock Therapy in the Presence of Physical Contraindications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

M. Straker
M. Straker*
Affiliation:
Ontario Hospital, Whitby, Ontario
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Since its inception, shock therapy has become rather more restricted in its field of application. During the initial phase of enthusiasm and trial it was used freely in all the functional psychoses, but now many observers are agreed that its main usefulness lies in the group of depressive reactions and the melancholias. The results in the schizophrenic group are generally disappointing. In reviewing a large series of shock-treated cases, Penrose (1) reports 1.4 per cent: more treated schizophrenics in hospital than expected in comparison with a control group.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 90 , Issue 380 , July 1944 , pp. 780 - 783
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1944 

References

(1) Results of Shock Treatment in Ontario Hospitals. Division of Medical Statistics, Ontario Department of Health, March, 1944.Google Scholar
(2) Smith, L. H., Hughes, J., Hastings, D. W., and Alpers, J. (1942), ” Electroshock Treatment in the Psychoses,” Amer. J. Psychiat., 98, 4, January.Google Scholar
(3) Pessin, J., and Reese, H. H. (1939), ” Fatal Complications following Metrazol Treatment for Schizophrenia,” ibid., 96, 2, September.Google Scholar
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(5) Heilbrunn, G., and Feldman, P. (1943), “Electric Shock Treatment in General Paresis” ibid., 99, 5, March.Google Scholar
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