convulsive therapy

Convulsive therapy is one of the oldest treatment practices in the world of psychiatry and was officially “discovered” in the 1930s by Ladislas J. Meduna, a Hungarian neuropathologist and neuropsychiatrist.

But it parcels out just enough facts divergent from “Bonds” — Helen Rask dies when her heart gives out after experimental “Convulsive Therapy,” Mildred Bevel of a cruel tumor — to invite more interest in Bevel, not less.

Here, Billy is exposed to a newfangled procedure in the annals of psychiatry — electric convulsive therapy.