psychological+treatment+in+the+1940s

=__﻿Psychological treatment in the 1940s__= Electroconvulsive therapy previously known as electroshock, is a well-established, albeit controversial, in which seizures are electrically induced in anesthetized patients for therapeutic effect. Today, is most often used as a treatment for severe major depression which has not responded to other treatment, and is also used in the treatment of mania was first introduced in the 1930s and gained widespread use as a form of treatment in the 1940s and 1950s; today, an estimated 1 million people worldwide receive ECT every year, usually in a course of 6–12 treatments administered 2 or 3 times a week. Electroconvulsive therapy can differ in its application in three ways: electrode placement, frequency of treatments.