Table of Contents

Introduction: Electricity, Psychiatry, and American Culture
The Electrotherapeutic Origins of Pushbutton Psychiatry
The 18th Century: The Electric Stage
The 19th Century: The Woman on the Couch
The Electroconvulsive Century
The Birth and Triumph of Pushbutton Psychiatry: Electroshock, 1938-1965
Rage Against the Machine: The Decline of Electroshock, 1966-1980
Pushbutton Triumphant: The Rebirth of Electroshock, 1981-1999
Epilogue: Into the 21st Century

About the Author

TIMOTHY W. KNEELAND is Assistant Professor of History and Political Science at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York.

CAROL A. B. WARREN is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas.

Reviews

.,."there are vociferous pro and con factions in the psychiatric world. ECT, gender issues in medicine, and the patients' rights movements are all part of the controversial package ably explored in this book, which belongs in the libraries of all major research institutions. Graduate students through professionals."-Choice

?...there are vociferous pro and con factions in the psychiatric world. ECT, gender issues in medicine, and the patients' rights movements are all part of the controversial package ably explored in this book, which belongs in the libraries of all major research institutions. Graduate students through professionals.?-Choice

?This is undoubtedly the first social history of ECT....Kneeland and Warren's masterful study shows not only how ECT-has moved through cycles of invention, acceptance, rejection, and re-acceptance, but also how cultures shapes and intertwines our bodies, minds, and machines.?-Matteo Bortolini, Researcher in Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes, University of Padua, Italy.

..."there are vociferous pro and con factions in the psychiatric world. ECT, gender issues in medicine, and the patients' rights movements are all part of the controversial package ably explored in this book, which belongs in the libraries of all major research institutions. Graduate students through professionals."-Choice

"This is undoubtedly the first social history of ECT....Kneeland and Warren's masterful study shows not only how ECT-has moved through cycles of invention, acceptance, rejection, and re-acceptance, but also how cultures shapes and intertwines our bodies, minds, and machines."-Matteo Bortolini, Researcher in Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes, University of Padua, Italy.