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Recovery Time from Modified and Unmodified E.C.T.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

A. F. M. Little
Affiliation:
Plymouth Hospitals
A. Arnaud Reid
Affiliation:
Moorhaven Hospital and Plymouth Clinical Area

Extract

During the last few years the use of electroconvulsive therapy in the treatment of out-patients has greatly increased. For example, in 1951, one hundred and forty-one treatments were given in the out-patient department of Freedom Fields Hospital, Plymouth, while in 1955, four hundred and sixty-four were given. There is no doubt that the number of treatments given to out-patients has increased even more in the country as a whole, as many hospitals did not start giving E.C.T. on an out-patient basis until well after 1951.

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Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1957 

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