MAINTENANCE CONVULSIVE TREATMENTS
WILLIAM KARLINER M.D.1, and
H. K. WEHRHEIM M.D.2
1 1749 Grand Concourse, Bronx, N. Y.
2 923 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.
Maintenance convulsive treatment was recommended to 210 patients after a repeated attack of a psychotic illness had been terminated with ECT. Fifty-seven patients accepted, 153 patients refused. Of those who accepted, 12% relapsed during a period of up to 6 years of observation and treatment; of the patients who refused, 79% relapsed.
