electroshock therapy

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Hermes skillfully twines together the many strands of Reed’s singular life — a benumbing suburban childhood, electroshock therapy, heroin addiction and artistic flowering at the feet of Schwartz and the Beats.

From Los Angeles Times

That private weariness caused him to recoil for long periods after his most outrageous escapades would get him sent to hospitals for electroshock therapy.

From Los Angeles Times

That procedure seems pretty much to be electroshock therapy, utilizing this newfangled thing called electricity.

From Salon

Eagleton, a Missouri Democrat and a vice-presidential nominee in 1972, had been hospitalized three times for depression and undergone electroshock therapy, a revelation that derailed his chance to serve in the White House.

From Washington Post

With electroshock therapy, the anesthetized patient receives a direct electrical current, which causes a seizure.

From Salon