electroshock

Example Sentences

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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

Hayes never lets us forget that the curmudgeonly wag being entertainingly outrageous is receiving electroshock treatments.

From Los Angeles Times

Lottie, upon being rescued in 1998, refused to speak and was sent to a mental institution where she was given electroshock treatments.

From New York 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