shock treatment

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Or were they swimming with the normative current in order to maintain careers, families, social standing — or, for that matter, to avoid being sent to asylums for shock treatment?

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

Yet skeptics of Mr. Volcker’s economic shock treatment have pointed out that he partly got lucky.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2023

“Sometimes I’d have shock treatment twice a day,” said Anne, who at 17 was placed in a psychiatric institution in 1979.

From Reuters • Dec. 16, 2020

His son Adrian Laing told BBC Radio's Great Lives programme his father grew up in the "dark ages" of psychiatric treatment, with padded cells, primitive electric shock treatment and lobotomies.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2017

I didn't see how Doctor Nolan could tell you went to sleep during a shock treatment if she'd never had a shock treatment herself.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath