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Originally Posted by Fishteacher73
I think a lot of the "effectiveness" of electroshock therapy was probably just due to a Pavlovian response.
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Actually, it was quite effective for a number of patients. I think the documentation on this is pretty good. Of course, you cannot get around the placebo effects because you can't perform a blinded study. But I have personally seen seriously depressed (suicidal) patients that were significantly improved by EST. That was in the late '70s.
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