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2. Shock therapy (psychiatry) - Wikipedia

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   Deep sleep therapy, introduced in the late 20th century, involved placing patients into a drug-induced coma for extended periods, purportedly to treat various mental illnesses.< [5] This approach to mental health treatment was part of a broader search for effective therapies during a time when the psychiatric field was struggling with managing ...

3. Insulin shock therapy - Wikipedia

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   In 1927, Sakel, who had recently qualified as a medical doctor in Vienna and was working in a psychiatric clinic in Berlin, began to use low (sub-coma) doses of insulin to treat drug addicts and psychopaths, and when one of the patients experienced improved mental clarity after having slipped into an accidental coma, Sakel reasoned the treatment might work for mentally ill patients. [3]

4. Rockland Psychiatric Center - Wikipedia

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   Rockland began employing insulin shock therapy in 1937, and later, electroconvulsive therapy. [3] By its peak in 1959 Rockland had more than 9000 residents and a staff of 2000 on a sprawling campus. In 1970, the Children's Group unit closed, its services moved to a new building by a new name, the Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center ...

5. Treatment of mental disorders - Wikipedia

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   Mental health services may be based in hospitals, clinics or the community. Often an individual may engage in different treatment modalities and use various mental health services. These may be under case management (sometimes referred to as "service coordination"), use inpatient or day treatment.

6. List of psychotherapies - Wikipedia

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   This list contains some approaches that may not call themselves a psychotherapy but have a similar aim of improving mental health and well-being through talk and other means of communication. In the 20th century, a great number of psychotherapies were created.

7. Electroconvulsive therapy - Wikipedia

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   The Union Health Ministry of India recommended a ban on ECT without anesthesia in India's Mental Health Care Bill of 2010 and the Mental Health Care Bill of 2013. [92] [93] The practice was abolished in Turkey's largest psychiatric hospital in 2008. [94] The patient's EEG, ECG, and blood oxygen levels are monitored during treatment. [1]: 1882