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Electroconvulsive therapy : a guide for professionals and their patients / Max Fink.
Holman Biotech Commons RC485 .F53 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fink, Max, 1923-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electroconvulsive therapy.
- Electroconvulsive Therapy.
- Mental Disorders--therapy.
- Medical Subjects:
- Electroconvulsive Therapy.
- Mental Disorders--therapy.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 162 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- What is electroconvulsive therapy?
- The patient's experience
- The treatment technique
- Side effects and memory issues
- Depressive mood disorders
- Manic mood disorders
- Movement disorders
- Other uses : psychosis, pregnancy, and status epilepticus
- Pediatric ECT
- How does ECT work?
- How did convulsive therapy originate?
- Is brain stimulation an alternative to ECT?
- Is ECT practice ethical?
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: Electroshock : healing mental illness. 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-151) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195365740
- 0195365747
- OCLC:
- 227268905
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