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Electroshock: Restoring the Mind Hardback - 1999 - 1st Edition

by Max Fink

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Dr. Fink draws on 45 years of experience to present a compelling argument for the benefits of electroshock therapy in treating emotional and mental disorders.

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Electroshock therapy has long suffered from a controversial and bizarre public image, effectively removing it as a treatment option for many patients. In Electroshock, Max Fink, M.D., draws on 45 years of clinical and research experience to argue that ECT is now a safe, painless, and sometimes life-saving treatment for emotional and mental disorders.

Dr. Fink traces the development of ECT from its discovery in 1934 followed by widespread use for two decades, to the 1950s when it was largely replaced by the introduction of psychotropic drugs, to its revival in the past twenty years as a viable treatment. He provides actual case studies of patients who have been treated with ECT and illustrates that many disorders--such as depression, mania, catatonia, and schizophrenia--respond well to it. As he explains the whole procedure from preparation to recovery, we see what the patient experiences. Fink also shows how anesthesia and muscle relaxation have refined ECT, minimizing discomfort and reducing risks to a level far lower than those experienced by patients using psychotropic drugs routinely prescribed for the same problems.

Clarifying the many misconceptions surrounding ECT, Electroshock is an excellent sourcebook for patients, their families, and mental health professionals.

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  • Title Electroshock: Restoring the Mind
  • Author Max Fink
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1999-08-12
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780195119565 / 0195119568
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.56 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.42 cm)
  • Reading level 1360
  • Category Psychology
  • Library of Congress subjects Electroconvulsive therapy
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98-45789
  • Dewey Decimal Code 616.891

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Citations

  • Booklist, 07/01/1999, Page 1913
  • Foreword, 08/01/1999, Page 70
  • Scitech Book News, 12/01/2000, Page 99

About the author

Max Fink, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology Emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Attending Psychiatrist at the Long Island Jewish-Hillside Hospital Medical Center. He is the author of Convulsive Therapy: Theory and Practice, Psychobiology of Convulsive Therapy, and other books. He lives in Nissequogue, New York.

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