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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 • Mar. 30, 2026

He went through many rounds of early ECT practices, which were then known as electroshock therapy.

From Slate • Dec. 21, 2022

He was committed to a hospital in San Diego, where he was treated with electroshock therapy.

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2022

It seems very autobiographical because she got electroshock therapy, and the story ends with the narrator getting it after her boss finds her snooping through the clinic’s files.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2022

The physician also agreed to refrain from giving him electroshock therapy, a commonly used treatment for mental conditions in Canadian hospitals at that time.

From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Solomon, Steve