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The guidelines summarised the current state of knowledge about ECT, set standards for its administration and discussed aspects of consent. ECT was, the guidelines concluded, an effective treatment for endogenous depression. There was less certainty about its value in mania, and little evidence for its usefulness in schizophrenia.
Electroconvulsive therapy has been depicted in fiction, including fictional works partly based on true experiences. These include Sylvia Plath 's semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar , Ken Loach 's film Family Life , and Ken Kesey 's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ; Kesey's novel is a direct product of his time working the graveyard ...
Articles relating to electroconvulsive therapy, a psychiatric treatment where a generalized seizure (without muscular convulsions) is electrically induced to manage refractory mental disorders. Pages in category "Electroconvulsive therapy"
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a controversial therapy used to treat certain mental illnesses such as major depressive disorder, schizophrenia, depressed bipolar disorder, manic excitement, and catatonia. [1] These disorders are difficult to live with and often very difficult to treat, leaving individuals suffering for long periods of time.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a standard psychiatric treatment in which seizures are electrically induced in patients to provide relief from psychiatric illnesses. [ 139 ] : 1880 ECT is used with informed consent [ 140 ] as a last line of intervention for major depressive disorder. [ 141 ]
Different forms of psychiatric medication, psychotherapy, or electroconvulsive therapy may be used in the emergency setting. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The introduction and efficacy of psychiatric medication as a treatment option in psychiatry has reduced the utilization of physical restraints in emergency settings, by reducing dangerous symptoms ...
Family Therapy or Education, which addresses the whole family system of an individual with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, may be beneficial, at least if the duration of intervention is longer-term. [ 129 ] [ 130 ] [ 131 ] A 2010 Cochrane review concluded that many of the clinical trials that studied the effectiveness of family interventions were ...
Biological therapy, which can also be referred to as biomedical therapy or biological interventions are any form of treatment for mental disorders that attempts to alter physiological functioning, including drug therapies, electroconvulsive therapy, and psychosurgery.