Handbook of ECT [Spiral-bound]

Charles H. Kellner (Author), etc. (Author), John T. Pritchett (Author), Mark D. Beale (Author), C. Edward Coffey (Author)

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Spiral-bound: 144 pages
Publisher: American Psychiatric Press Inc.; Spi edition (1 Aug 1997)
Language English
ISBN-10: 088048683X
ISBN-13: 978-0880486835
Product Dimensions: 20.7 x 14 x 1.1 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,527,417 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This handbook is a reference for experienced practitioners and a guidebook to residents who are learning ECT procedure. The authors provide an overview of all aspects of ECT delivery, including patient selection, treatment techniques, and patient aftercare, and describe the most recent technical advances. Developed as a complement to the "APA Task Force Report on the Practice of Electroconvulsive Therapy" the handbook should enable clinicians to perform ECT according to the Task Force's standards and help them make informed referrals to ECT practitioners.

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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent information about "the treatment of last resort.", 30 Mar 2000

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I picked up the book with a strong bia against ECT. The book addressed many of those biases and demonstrated that those biases were for the most part false. The book points out the fact that people fear what they do not understand, and ECT is much misunderstood.

I recomend this book to anyone who's physician has suggested ECT as the best treatment available. One need not live with crippling depression, nor live with a baseless fear of an effective treatment.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interested, 26 July 2002

By jim - Published on Amazon.com

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Its amazing to me how people critque illnesses they have no idea about. Ect is a last hope procedure. It is a rough procedure but would u rather kill yourself or have this done to you. I think the ladder would be the ideal option. Depression is a disease , just like cancer just like aids, until people can distinquish this fact, depression and ect will be stigmatized by morons such as this reviewers are here. I had depression for 6 yrs and nothing has help except ECT , i strongly recommend it this book and the procedure. And clueless people that say ECT is bad ECT is horrible, it is nothing compared to the horrors of depression and living on this crappy planet. So to the ones that say ect is destroying your mind, your mind is already destroyed by depression. Ect is hope and the nay sayers just so there ignorance.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Handbook, 7 April 2001

By Jim Staudenmeier "jstauden" - Published on Amazon.com

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Book is fine. Useful. It is ashame that folks with strong false beliefs badmouth the book and ECT. They are wrong. If my choice was for ECT or for taking a bunch of pills day after day I would go for ECT. James Staudenmeier, MD, MPH (Health Services Administration)

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