shock treatment
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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
In 2017, NHS England and the Royal College of Psychiatrists pledged to stop practising conversion therapy, including electric shock treatment.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025
“Sometimes I’d have shock treatment twice a day,” said Anne, who at 17 was placed in a psychiatric institution in 1979.
From Reuters • Dec. 16, 2020
Toasted ground cumin and pungent cilantro complete the shock treatment; brace yourself for some heat and the numbing effect of the Sichuan spicing.
From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2017
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
