Besides the virtual moratorium on legality that accompanied privatization,
shock therapy had another major impact on the political system.
Evalina's occasional sightings of Zelda form the backbone of the book, though Evalina's own story is dramatic enough: she flees Highland when she fears she will be given
shock therapy. Abandoned and pregnant, she receives the therapy and gradually finds her way back to reality and into the arms of a woolly lad known, not inappropriately, as Pan.
(1) The cautionary comments by the doctor's more politically and professionally seasoned colleagues (he and his colleagues are delivering '
shock therapy' lectures at Johannesburg schools where teenage pregnancies are a real problem) are valid, given the sexually conservative nature of parents across cultures.
Author Carrie Fisher narrates her own story of how
shock therapy she's been regularly undergoing is threatening to wipe out what's left of her memory.
I hear that doctors are using
shock therapy again for depression.
After a period of gradualist reforms under Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s, Moscow implemented the so-called
shock therapy (Sachs, 1992), with still visible devastating consequences (Stiglitz, 2003).
The plan to lay off 2A 000 employees of the State Railways BDZ and to cancel 150 trains is too much of a
shock therapy, according to the Chair of the KNSB trade union, Plamen Dimitrov.
Keywords:
shock therapy, social change, postcommunism, normalization
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Wednesday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must deliver reforms that would constitute "
shock therapy" to his country if he had any hope of ending a nine-week crisis that was roiling the region, pan-Arab daily ASHARQ AL AWSAT reported on Friday.
Most people with depression are prescribed drugs and therapy but many don't respond to this- electric
shock therapy is the only resort but has serious side effects, including memory loss.