Includes bibliographical references (pages[107]-130) and index
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
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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
Electroconvulsive therapy-- United States-- History-- 20th century