Research Catalog

Title

Pushbutton psychiatry : a cultural history of electroshock in America / by Timothy W. Kneeland, Carol A.B. Warren.

Author

Kneeland, Timothy W., 1962-

Publication

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast ; Oxford : Berg [distributor], c2008.

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Additional Authors

Warren, Carol A. B., 1944-

Description

xxvii, 135 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

From the Publisher: This volume uncovers the roots of electroshock in America, an outgrowth of western patriarchal medicine with primarily female patients, with a new epilogue bringing the research up to the present.

Subject

• 1900 - 1999
• Geschichte 1700-2008
• Electroconvulsive Therapy > history
• Electroconvulsive therapy > United States > History > 20th century
• United States

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Previous ed.: Westport, Conn.; London: Praeger, 2002.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Electricity, psychiatry, and American culture -- Part 1: Electrotherapeutic Origins Of Pushbutton Psychiatry -- 1: Eighteenth century: the electric stage -- 2: Nineteenth century: the woman on the couch -- Part 2: Electroconvulsive Century -- 3: Birth and triumph of pushbutton psychiatry: electroshock, 1938-1965 -- 4: Rage against the machine: the decline of electroshock, 1966-1980 -- 5: Pushbutton triumphant: the rebirth of electroshock, 1981-1999 -- Epilogue: Into the twenty-first century -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781598743630 (pbk.)
• 1598743635 (pbk.)

OCLC

227015809

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library