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The use of Electroplexy (E.C.T.) in Psychiatric Syndromes Complicating Pregnancy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

S. Smith
S. Smith*
Affiliation:
Barrow Hospital, Barrow Gurney, Bristol
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Electroplexy is now a widely accepted and used treatment in psychiatric practice. Primarily it is by far the most reliable means of terminating or resolving depressive attacks, months or indeed years before the anticipated remission of these illnesses on their own accord. Less commonly it is also regarded as an effective treatment in some schizophrenic states, particularly the acute type, or schizophreniform illness, “but actually most schizophrenics are treated at some stage of their illness with electrically induced convulsions” (Kalinowsky and Hoch, 1952). Neither depressive nor schizophrenic syndromes are infrequent in pregnancy and the question must therefore be posed in some of these complications whether electroplexy is justified; whether it can be used safely either alone or with relaxants; and what, if any, deleterious effects may be imposed on the mother and/or foetus.

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Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 102 , Issue 429 , October 1956 , pp. 796 - 800
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1956 

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