Shock therapy is making a comeback today in the treatment of serious mental illness. Despite its reemergence as a safe and effective psychiatric tool, however, it continues to be shrouded by a longs
Ah, what would popular culture be without characters such as Lindsay Lohan and Mel Gibson, along with the pop culture--centrific media that covers them? For starters, Doug Bratton's The Deranged Stal
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia witnessed a dramatic increase in psychotherapeutic options, which promoted more socially-oriented values while advancing new forms of capitalist subjecti
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia witnessed a dramatic increase in psychotherapeutic options, which promoted more socially-oriented values while advancing new forms of capitalist subjecti
Shock Therapy For the American Health Care System describes the problems of the health care system and offers a program of comprehensive reform that is more far-reaching than anything currently being
This section contains descriptions of the effects ECT has on brain physiology, new ?lower impact? techniques, such as vagal nerve stimulation, and magnetic seizure therapy. Included is a real-time dem
This series, which is based on the book ?Shock: The Healing Power of Electroconvulsive Therapy? by Kitty Dukakis and Larry Tye, reveals the personal stories of a dozen people who underwent electroconv
Kitty Dukakis has battled debilitating depression for more than twenty years. Coupled with drug and alcohol addictions that both hid and fueled her suffering, Kitty's despair was overwhelming. She tr
The book Heat Shock Protein-Based Therapies provides the most up-to-date review on new heat shock protein-based mechanisms used in the therapy and treatment of various human disorders and diseases, in
This issue of Critical Care Clinics by Dr. Anand Kumar will feature articles on: Optimizing Antimicrobial Therapy in Life-threatening infection, sepsis and septic shock;General principles of antimicr
China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country's rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This boo
Few mental illness treatments are more reviled in the public mind than Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy. However, in reality, ECT is a safe and effective treatment for cases of clinical depression and
As the Left reawakens in Latin America following widespread disillusionment with neoliberal efforts to apply "shock therapy" to local economies, this story of the exemplary life of a major Peruvian ac
It is manifest in developing countries around the world that the “shock” therapy administered to their economies by the neoliberal model of structural adjustment has failed, leaving much social and ec
