THE DECREASING USE OF ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY
GEORGE GULEVICH M.D.1,
ROBERT S. DANIELS M.D.2, , and
PHILIP M. MARGOLIS M.D.3
1 Resident, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Chicago School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill.
2 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Chicago School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill.
3 Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Chicago School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill.
The frequency of the use of ECT in psychotic depressions in a small psychiatric unit in a general hospital is compared for 1958 and 1960. Decreased use is related to an improved therapeutic milieu and to judicious use of antidepressant medications.
