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Author Kneeland, Timothy W., 1962-

Title Pushbutton psychiatry : a history of electroshock in America / Timothy W. Kneeland and Carol A.B. Warren.

Imprint Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  616.8912 K68P    Check Shelf
Description xxvii, 135 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-129) and index.
Contents Introduction: Electricity, Psychiatry, and American Culture xvii -- Part I The Electrotherapeutic Origins of Pushbutton Psychiatry 1 -- 1 The Eighteenth Century: The Electric Stage 3 -- 2 The Nineteenth Century: The Woman on the Couch 21 -- Part II The Electroconvulsive Century 41 -- 3 The Birth and Triumph of Pushbutton Psychiatry: Electroshock, 1938-1965 43 -- 4 Rage Against the Machine: The Decline of Electroshock, 1966-1980 63 -- 5 Pushbutton Triumphant: The Rebirth of Electroshock, 1981-1999 85 -- Epilogue: Into the Twenty-First Century 103.
Summary Annotation Provides a historical and sociological analysis of electroshock within the parameters of American social, political, and economic institutions.
Annotation The history of electroshock in the United States in three historic stages is chronicled as it alternated from an enthusiastic reception in 1940, to a period of crisis in the 1960s, to its resurgence after 1980. Early American experiments with electrical medicine are also examined, while the development of electroshock in America is considered through the lens of social, political, and economic factors, as is the revival of electroshock in recent decades.
Subject Electroconvulsive therapy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Electroconvulsive Therapy -- history. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004565Q000266
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Electroconvulsive therapy. (OCoLC)fst00906393
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Elektroshocktherapie.
United States.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Geschichte 1700-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Warren, Carol A. B., 1944-
Other Form: Online version: Kneeland, Timothy W., 1962- Pushbutton psychiatry. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002 (OCoLC)606796228
Online version: Kneeland, Timothy W., 1962- Pushbutton psychiatry. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002 (OCoLC)607901916
ISBN 0275968154 (alk. paper)
9780275968151 (alk. paper)
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