shock treatment
Example Sentences
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Or were they swimming with the normative current in order to maintain careers, families, social standing — or, for that matter, to avoid being sent to asylums for shock treatment?
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026
Yet skeptics of Mr. Volcker’s economic shock treatment have pointed out that he partly got lucky.
From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2023
Oil prices are down around 4% since Wednesday as the shock treatment seemed to take effect.
From Reuters • Nov. 18, 2021
Ian Holm Cuthbert was born on 12 September 1931 in a mental hospital in Goodmayes, Essex, where his father, a psychiatrist and a pioneer of electric shock treatment, was the superintendent.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2020
It wasn't the shock treatment that struck me, so much as the bare-faced treachery of Doctor Nolan.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
