NOUN
- treatment of certain psychotic states by the administration of shocks that are followed by convulsions
How To Use shock therapy In A Sentence
- This withdrawal is killing me. It's like shock therapy to my guts.
- It's best known as electroshock therapy, electrically shocking the brain to produce a seizure, a procedure many only know from its portrayal by Jack Nicholson in the movie "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2005
- The next stage in the economic shock therapy will be freeing energy prices.
- The company had fallen into the habit of using George to administer a sort of organizational shock therapy.
- A bout of fisticuffs ensues, and with a misdirected right hook, the villain finds himself stuck in the shock therapy equipment.
- In the 20th century, physicians administered electroshock therapy or injected high doses of insulin to induce seizures.
- In the 20th century, physicians administered electroshock therapy or injected high doses of insulin to induce seizures.
- The use of shock therapy to treat Internet addiction is still controversial in clinical application.
- Others might think it takes a controlled dangerous substance or shock therapy.
- Others might think it takes a controlled dangerous substance or shock therapy.
