NOUN
- treatment of certain psychotic states by the administration of shocks that are followed by convulsions
How To Use shock treatment In A Sentence
- We have a sad history of enforced treatment of people who've committed crimes but now treatments like electrotherapy, electric shock treatment, and psychosurgery are very strictly regulated.
- We don't want New Zealand's good name muddied by links for the torture of prisoners, which is reputed to include beatings, electric shock treatment, and sleep, food and water deprivation. New Zealand Herald - Top Stories
- The treatments comprised straightjackets, seclusion, insulin shock and electric shock treatment, that was it.
- Other men take various middle routes between the above extremes, involving purchase of one or more of shavers, nasal trimmers, eyebrow pluckers, waxing kits and electric shock treatment.
- They say each donut is put on medication shock treatment.
- But it was also announced that he had had cardiac shock treatment, or cardioversion. Times, Sunday Times
- Slogra: Vurtne , Do you know ECT ( electroconvulsive therapy electric shock treatment )?
- He's in favour of the short sharp shock treatment for young offenders.
- It is regrettable that it has become necessary to deploy policemen in schools, but it is needed as an emergency shock treatment.
- I thought this terribly symptomatic of the deadness of his feelings, no doubt the result of too much shock treatment.
