Research Catalog

Title

Electroshock : restoring the mind / [by] Max Fink.

Author

Fink, Max, 1923-

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

xiv, 157 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

• "A sourcebook for patients, their families, caretakers, and mental health professionals, Electroshock clarifies misconceptions about ECT."--BOOK JACKET.
• "Electroshock therapy (ECT) has long suffered from a controversial and bizarre public image, a reputation that has effectively removed it as a treatment option for many patients. In Electroshock, Max Fink, M.D., draws on 45 years of clinical and research experience to argue that ECT is now a safe, effective, painless, and sometimes life-saving treatment for emotional and mental disorders."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Handbook
• Electroconvulsive therapy > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Electroconvulsive Therapy

Genre/Form

Handbook.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. What Is Electroshock? -- 2. The Patient's Experience -- 3. Risks and Contraindications -- 4. Technical Features of the Treatment -- 5. Depressive Mood Disorders -- 6. Manic Mood Disorders -- 7. Thought Disorders -- 8. Movement Disorders -- 9. How Does It Work? -- 10. The Origins of Electroshock Therapy -- 11. Controversy in Electroshock -- 12. Electroshock in the 1990s -- App. 1. Diagnoses in Which ECT Is Considered Effective -- App. 2. Diagnoses in Which ECT Is Considered Ineffective -- App. 3. Sample Consent Form for Electrotherapy -- App. 4. Medicines.

ISBN

0195119568

LCCN

98045789

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries