Article ID: CBB000950373

Electrotherapy and Mental Illness: Then and Now (2008)

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Today electrotherapy has reappeared as a therapy of choice for the treatment of depression and other forms of mental illness. It had de facto vanished from allopathic medicine from the 1920s to the end of the century. The debates about electrotherapy mirror the question of whether mental illness was somatic and to be treated by somatic means or psychological to be treated with psychotherapy. Sigmund Freud's move from an advocate to an opponent of electrotherapy is exemplary for a shift in attitude and the decline of electrotherapy. With the re-somaticization of mental illness over the past decades has come the reappearance of somatic therapies such as electrotherapy.

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Authors & Contributors
Easton, Patricia Ann
Hayward, Rhodri
Passione, Roberta
Rotzoll, Maike
Wheatley, Thelma
Doetz, Susanne
Journals
Mefisto: Rivista di medicina, filosofia, storia
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
History of Psychiatry
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Daimon Verlag
Inanna Publications
Transcript Verlag
Moelle Graphique
Concepts
Psychiatry
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychosomatic medicine
Psychology
Clinical psychology
Philosophy of medicine
People
Bayle, François
Binswanger, Ludwig
Bleuler, Eugen
Descartes, René
Freud, Sigmund
Halliday, James Lorimer
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
Places
Germany
Italy
Ontario (Canada)
Finland
France
Québec (Canada)
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