Electroshock: Healing Mental Illness

by Max Fink

Book Overview

Electroshock therapy has long suffered from a controversial and bizarre public image, effectively removing 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, painless, and sometimes life-saving treatment for emotional and mental disorders.

Dr. Fink traces the development of ECT from its discovery in 1934 followed by widespread use...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195365747
• ISBN13: 9780195365740
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.0"