shock therapy in English

noun
1
treatment of chronic mental conditions by electroconvulsive therapy or by inducing physiological shock.
Crazy John is to receive shock therapy or counselling for mental illness.
noun
    shock treatment

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1. He will have to have shock therapy.

2. I had forgotten the delayed shock therapy effect of these bar charts.

3. This withdrawal is killing me. It's like shock therapy to my guts.

4. In a moral and institutional vacuum, any strategy constitutes a shock therapy.

5. Others might think it takes a controlled dangerous substance or shock therapy.

6. Everton, for their part, have decided that shock therapy may be the answer.

7. The next stage in the economic shock therapy will be freeing energy prices.

8. The use of shock therapy to treat Internet addiction is still controversial in clinical application.

9. All this is important because of the argument that shock therapy has been a mistake.

10. Shock therapy: Method of treating psychiatric disorders by inducing shock through drugs or electric current.

11. Top synonyms for Aerotherapy (other words for Aerotherapy) are occupational therapy, shock therapy and physiotherapy.

12. The subsidiary organization suddenly found itself in need of administering shock therapy to its members.

13. Jeter WW. Fatal circulatory failure caused by electric shock therapy. Arch Neurol Psychiatry. 19 51 : 5

14. While in government, Gaidar advocated free market economic reforms according to the principle of shock therapy.

15. The company had fallen into the habit of using George to administer a sort of organizational shock therapy.

16. But now that we are the ones in crisis and in need of shock therapy, everyone is preaching gradualism.

17. The first, Thomas F.. Eagleton, was axed after it was disclosed he had undergone electric shock therapy for depression.

18. Had shock therapy been applied and not led to the results expected, then it would indeed have been a failure.

19. Acutes are considered functioning and curable, while the Chronics are those who have been permanently damaged by the staff’s treatments, which include lobotomy and shock therapy

20. These favorable results, which markedly contrast with the deleterious influence of nonselective NOS inhibitors in similar conditions, suggest that selective iNOS inhibitors might become useful adjuncts to septic shock therapy in the future.

21. 26 Later plagued by intense back pain that had migrated to his neck he took the hypnotic drug chloral hydrate as a sleep aid and tried electric-shock therapy which failed to provide relief.