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The return of electroshock. (treatment for depression)
The Return of Electroshock
Treatment of depression now constitutes a large part of the psychiatrist's practice. It is baffling in its complexity, and few doctors can resist the "quick fix."
Because psychoanalysis usually requires long-term therapy, becoming time consuming and very expensive for many individuals, psychiatrists have embraced the "fast-food" principles of drug therapy, the pill.
Because medications can only work on particular levels, often disabling people so that they cannot function or compete in the everyday world. Most professionals realize that there are deep emotional problems beneath the symptoms. Will drugs work to correct…
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