Electroshock Therapy Electroshock therapy what is it? How does it work? What is it used for and what comes from it? This paper will answer all of these questions and will also try to prove that electroshock therapy is useful and not as bad as it appears to be. Electroshock therapy is an old process of ridding schizophrenia, and depression, and suicidal tendencies. It is used when people with major depression are taking too many anti depressant drugs, cant take the side-effects of their medication, or they are taking too many drugs and anti-depressant drugs are too risky to take. It is also used to irradiate certain cases of schizophrenia and is being studied to treat dementia. (Mental Illness Assessment and Treatment p.78). Convulsive therapy using drugs rather than electricity was introduced in 1934 by Hungarian neuropsychiatrist Ladisles meduna , who speculated that seizures (similar to the ones occurring in epilepsy) could probably alleviate mental disorders. He based his theory on the belief that epileptic seizures prevented the symptoms of schizophrenia. Although this was a good theory, the drugs administered to the patients to induce these seizures was too risky to the patients lives. In 1937 psychiatrists started using electric shocks to induce seizures. In 1939 ECT was in wide use in the United States. In those days ECT was unrefined and resulted in many complications and was terribly abused. Today ECT is more refined, safe, and effective (Mental Illness Assessment and Treatment p.78). How does it work? Electroshock therapy or ECT involves exposing the brain to carefully controlled pulses of electric current that induce brief seizures. The reason why electroshock therapy relieves depression is still unknown. Researchers believe that Electroshock therapy alters monoamine function, as do the anti-depressant drugs. The process of inducing seizures through electroshock is not as complicated or as dangerous as people think.
Electroshock Therapy Electroshock therapy what is it? ... Electroshock therapy is an old process of ridding schizophrenia, and depression, and suicidal tendencies. ... The reason why electroshock therapy relieves depression is still unknown. ... Electroshock therapy is not only a good idea, but in some cases a necessity. ... Electroshock therapy is not a popular practice in the mental illness treatment field. ...
The why and how of this therapy is still not known (United States 1). ... The problem is "that electroshock is a form of torture. ... During a hostage crisis in 1980 with Libya CIA doctors found that the prisoner had underwent electroshocks to the head and genitals. Prisoners in Brazil in the 1970s said that various body parts were given electroshock (Chavin 1). ... Electroconvulsive shock therapy does not offer a long-term solution, especially without adding medication on top of the Electroshock treatment. ...
Almost as brutal as the lobotomy, electroshock therapy was used to treat depression and Schizophrenia but was known to cause severe memory loss, put patients in cardiac arrest, and cause many deaths. ... But shock therapy was usually repeated a few times a day for about a month. ... Sometimes effective, electroshock was primarily a very dangerous procedure used, and killed or brain damaged many patients. ... Because Holden tells his story from inside a mental hospital, there is a good chance treatment he is receives is a biomedical therapy, a lobotomy or electroshock. ... Treatments such a lo...
its not until both McMurphy and Chief are about to go into electroshock therapy when he reveals into McMurphy that he can hear, talk and comprehended things. ... His first trip to "brain burning"(178)- electric shock therapy-makes him a power symbol to the men at the ward Although McMurphy doesn't see that his actions are putting him in more danger than he already is; Chief and the other men do. ... And again when McMurphy and Chief go into the Disturbed Ward and are subjected to electroshock therapy. ...
One major symbol that ties in with the biblical times is the Electroshock Therapy table. ... Kesey is extremely accurate in his us of the electroshock therapy table as a crucifix. ... The nurse finds herself in dismay at the reaction of the patients to Randle's therapy. Like Christ, McMurphy has been facing his fate of the shock therapy without any fear and for this his power is strengthening in the ward even without his being there. ... In addition to the electroshock therapy table as the crucifix, Kesey also uses fog to symbolize presence of God the Father and how McMurphy impacts t...
He pled guilty to carnal knowledge and received one-year probation with provision for mandatory therapy and electroshock treatments, but it seemed to have little if any effect on his behavior. This is possibly where he acquired the idea of using shock therapy on his victims. ...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The novel is presented through the viewpoint of the paranoid schizophrenic Chief Bromden. The author, Ken Kesey, portraits the dulling personalities of the rebellious Randle Patrick McMurphy and the oppressive Nurse Ratched. The power struggle between the two ...
Major symbolism appears in the form of electroshock therapy. ... McMurphy's sacrifice is in the form of bringing electroshock therapy upon himself by refusing to follow hospital rules and continuing to behave in a self-centered manner. He becomes senseless and unresponsive after repeated electroshock therapy "treatments-, and was no longer physically or mentally able to help himself or the men who saw him as their leader. ...
This is both unsuccessful and horrific because Esther begins to feel hopeless and the terrifying electroshock therapy sets her back. Plath describes the electroshock therapy as a "darkness wipes me out like chalk on a blackboard". ... Nolan, and in combination with that one endures a successful series of shock therapy sessions. ...
