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shock therapy

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the treatment of certain psychotic conditions by injecting drugs or by passing an electric current through the brain (electroconvulsive therapy) to produce convulsions or coma
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

shock therapy

[′shäk ‚ther·ə·pē]
(psychology)
The use of drugs, carbon dioxide, insulin, or electric current to induce coma in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The privately run school that treats severely autistic children is believed to be the only school of its kind in the nation that uses skin shock treatments to control the behavior of some students.
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And so I imagined that if I could just grasp the reality of death, then the opposite life would also become real to me." After this episode, he was given shock treatment; initially glad that something concrete was being done to help him, he soon came to hate those black days.
And the hardliners on both sides are so angry with China's strategic security strategy that they believe that a close of Congressional "shock treatment" would be helpful.
In the pursuit of beauty, American women have variously plumped breasts with toilet-plunger-like suction devices (1890s), strapped themselves into fat-roller machines to press away the pounds (1910s), endured "electrode" shock treatment to zap away wrinkles (1920s), worn wire headsets to pull back cheek waddles (1960s), popped "youth" pills, and slathered on anti-cellulite lotions for generations.
It left me disturbed." Coming from the man (a Republican!) who once pleaded, "Gimme gimme shock treatment," that's really saying something.
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