ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY
Abstract
The total approach to the treatment of the acute psychotic should embody not only the active phase of the treatment, with a complete physical and laboratory study, but a thorough study, of the patient in relationship ship to his environment. This necessitates an intimate understanding on the part of the physician of the personalities of the entire family group. A human yet scientific approach incorporates the philosophy and friendliness of the old family physician with the dynamic interpretation and understanding of modern psychiatry: a personalized service adaptable to the individual and his family instead of a detached impersonal attitude that is so prevalent in large institutions and that would become more so in so-called Socialized Medicine.
A five-year follow-up program on 200 cases which followed such a program has been studied and presented. The recovery rate under this procedure has been extremely high and has been maintained over a period of 1 to 5 years in 80% of the cases.
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