Word: electroshock
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...came up the other night because our television set seemed to be imploding. The closest I can come to describing what happened is to say that judging by the picture and the sound, some person or force seemed to have decided that our television set could benefit from some electroshock therapy, perhaps as a way of calming down those relentlessly chirpy people on the local news...
...Eagleton reached a career peak. Senator George McGovern, the Democratic candidate for President, picked him as his running mate. Less than three weeks later, however, Eagleton was forced to withdraw after confirming reports that he had received electroshock treatment for depression. McGovern and Eagleton's replacement, Sargent Shriver, went on to defeat. Eagleton remained in the Senate, retiring in 1986, unwilling to undertake campaign fund raising. He serves on a presidential advisory board overseeing intelligence agencies; in 1995 he was instrumental in persuading the Los Angeles Rams to move to St. Louis. Would revelations of psychiatric treatment sink a candidacy...
...beaten him so badly around the head," Cootie Williams remembered, "((Bud's mother)) had to go get him ... His sickness started right there." Powell began showing signs of insanity, and that was combined with drinking and drug problems. He was periodically confined to psychiatric hospitals, where he underwent electroshock therapy and was even sprayed with water laced with ammonia. For a few years in the late 1940s, the wizard saxophone player Jackie McLean, eight years younger than Powell, spent a lot of time as a kind of musical apprentice and all-purpose guardian for him. He'd take Powell...
...these critics to lose their professional cool at the mere mention of Breggin is his relentless crusade against the conventional wisdom of psychiatry -- and his increasingly high profile. What causes Breggin to rail against his profession is its eagerness to embrace technology, from the early zeal for lobotomies and electroshock to the modern reliance on such psychoactive drugs as Thorazine and lithium. In looking for the quick fix, Breggin argues, too many psychiatrists have forgotten the importance of love, hope and empathy in maintaining sanity. The power to heal the mind lies in people, he says, not pills...
...among soldiers awaiting surgery. That prompted a Paris psychiatrist to try the drug on schizophrenics. Thorazine calmed patients and reduced their symptoms. It was quickly proclaimed a miracle drug. Thorazine and related drugs such as haloperidol, fluphenazine and thiothixene soon eclipsed the brutal treatments previously in vogue: lobotomy, primitive electroshock and artificially induced insulin shock. Over the next two decades, nearly half a million patients were discharged from state hospitals in the U.S. and hundreds of thousands more from hospitals in Europe...