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Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.3.197

Thirty-four additional patients with diagnoses of manic-depressive psychosis, involutional melancholia, and schizophrenia were treated with 5 or fewer electric shock treatments. All the patients had complete remissions for periods up to 28 months. Some patients previously reported, who had been given 5 or fewer treatments, were followed up and were found to have remained well up to 3¾ years after the last treatment.

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