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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

In 2017, NHS England and the Royal College of Psychiatrists pledged to stop practising conversion therapy, including electric shock treatment.

From BBC Dec. 5, 2025

“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

Losing money is a shock treatment they might respond to.

From New York Times Jul. 14, 2017

It wasn't the shock treatment that struck me, so much as the bare-faced treachery of Doctor Nolan.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath




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