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Pushbutton psychiatry : a history of electroshock in America / Timothy W. Kneeland and Carol A.B. Warren.
- Title
- Pushbutton psychiatry : a history of electroshock in America / Timothy W. Kneeland and Carol A.B. Warren.
- Author
- Kneeland, Timothy W., 1962-
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.
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- Additional Authors
- Warren, Carol A. B., 1944-
- Description
- xxvii, 135 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Annotation
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [107]-129) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: Electricity, Psychiatry, and American Culture xvii -- Part I The Electrotherapeutic Origins of Pushbutton Psychiatry 1 -- 1 The Eighteenth Century: The Electric Stage 3 -- 2 The Nineteenth Century: The Woman on the Couch 21 -- Part II The Electroconvulsive Century 41 -- 3 The Birth and Triumph of Pushbutton Psychiatry: Electroshock, 1938-1965 43 -- 4 Rage Against the Machine: The Decline of Electroshock, 1966-1980 63 -- 5 Pushbutton Triumphant: The Rebirth of Electroshock, 1981-1999 85 -- Epilogue: Into the Twenty-First Century 103.
- ISBN
- 0275968154 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2001036697
- OCLC
- 47625300
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library