A discourse analysis of professional accounts of electroconvulsive therapy

Electro convulsive therapy (ECT) is amongst the most controversial treatments used within the National Health Service. While advocates have described it as one of the safest and most effective treatments available to psychiatrists, critics have censured it as barbaric, harmful and ineffective. In th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stevens, Peter
Published: University of East London 2001
Subjects:
615
ECT
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251930