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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. 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.

5. 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.

6. List of diagnostic classification and rating scales used in ...

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   The following diagnostic systems and rating scales are used in psychiatry and clinical psychology.This list is by no means exhaustive or complete. For instance, in the category of depression, there are over two dozen depression rating scales that have been developed in the past eighty years.

7. In defense of 'Shock Treatment,' the failed, forgotten ... - AOL

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