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Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.4.533

Electrosleep is a technique of psychiatric treatment that has been undergoing development in the USSR for approximately 20 years, with a great flurry of interest in the past five years. The authors report briefly on a clinical evaluation of electrosleep in the United States to alert other investigators in this country to a new area of possible interest.

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