Shock therapy: a history of electroconvulsive treatment in mental illness

The penicillin of psychiatry?

"Some experiments on the biological influencing of the course of schizophrenia"

"Madness cured with electricity"

From the university clinic to the psychiatric institute: shock therapy goes global

The couch or the treatment table?

"ECT does not create zombies"

"They're going to fry your brains!"

The end of "Bedlam" and the age of psychopharmacology

The swinging pendulum: the effects of politics, law, and changes in medical culture on ECT

Electrogirl and the new ECT

Magnets and implants: new therapies for a new century?

Epilogue: irrational science.