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By Edward Shorter and David Healy. 382 pp., illustrated. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2007. $27.95. ISBN 978-0-8135-4169-3.

This book is a panegyric to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and will certainly be useful as a counterbalance to the many volumes attacking ECT. The authors are without doubt qualified for the task: Edward Shorter is a well-respected historian of psychiatry, and David Healy is an eminent clinician, investigator, and author. For the reader who wishes to learn how ECT developed and went through ups and downs in its acceptance by the public, by Hollywood, and by the mental health profession, the book is superb. We learn a great deal about the facts, with a generous sprinkling of anecdotes and judgments . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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