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shock therapy

noun as in treatment of psychotic states with electrical shock

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When Milei assumed the presidency, he promised shock therapy, devaluing the peso by 50% and cutting the number of government ministries by half.

From BBC

Emma was kept away from her children for two years and received endless forms of electric shock therapy.

The IMF has endorsed Milei’s shock therapy for Argentina, agreeing to disburse $4.7 billion from a bailout package the country took out six years ago.

Mr Milei has said the country needs "economic shock therapy" to fix its current economic crisis, deemed the worst in decades.

From BBC

Fanon’s thinking on the mental health of the oppressed and the liberating force of violence — “shock therapy for the colonized mind” — was embraced by the Black Panthers, who helped resurrect Fanon in the late ’60s.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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