electroshock therapy
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Los Angeles and Tucson, Ariz. Despite many close friendships, especially with women, he was at heart a loner, conditioned, possibly, by clinical depression, for which he sought electroshock therapy even though it addled his brain.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
Eagleton, a Missouri Democrat and a vice-presidential nominee in 1972, had been hospitalized three times for depression and undergone electroshock therapy, a revelation that derailed his chance to serve in the White House.
From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2023
He went through many rounds of early ECT practices, which were then known as electroshock therapy.
From Slate • Dec. 21, 2022
With electroshock therapy, the anesthetized patient receives a direct electrical current, which causes a seizure.
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2022
The physician also agreed to refrain from giving him electroshock therapy, a commonly used treatment for mental conditions in Canadian hospitals at that time.
From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Solomon, Steve
