electroshock therapy

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Los Angeles and Tucson, Ariz. Despite many close friendships, especially with women, he was at heart a loner, conditioned, possibly, by clinical depression, for which he sought electroshock therapy even though it addled his brain.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

In 1972, Thomas Eagleton was forced to drop off the Democratic presidential ticket as George McGovern’s running mate after disclosures that he had been hospitalized for depression and treated with electroshock therapy.

From New York Times