Abstract

1. A brief review of the literature on electric shock therapy is presented. 2. Fifty cases of moderately chronic psychoses received over 1,000 electric shock treatments in convulsive and subconvulsive doses; and the technic, complications, hazards of treatment, contraindicatons, results, and other observations are discussed. 3. A comparative study between electric shock and pharmacologic shock therapy as well as between two methods of electric shock therapy, i.e., the convulsive and subconvulsive, is presented.

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