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  • Convulsive laughter is inseparable from n|om: and the more you laugh, the softer you get, enabling even more n|om to fill you up.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • Then in 2007 Healy published one of the few books in recent years to unabashedly promote shock treatment: Shock Treatment: A History of Convulsive Therapy in Mental Illness written with Edward Shorer, a Canadian defender of ECT.

    Dr. Peter Breggin: The Stealth ECT Psychiatrist in Psychiatric Reform Dr. Peter Breggin 2012

  • Then in 2007 Healy published one of the few books in recent years to unabashedly promote shock treatment: Shock Treatment: A History of Convulsive Therapy in Mental Illness written with Edward Shorer, a Canadian defender of ECT.

    Dr. Peter Breggin: The Stealth ECT Psychiatrist in Psychiatric Reform Dr. Peter Breggin 2012

  • H. M. Keith, Convulsive Disorders in Children Boston: Little, Brown, 1963, 167–172.

    THE NEW ATKINS FOR A NEW YOU Dr. Eric C. Westman 2010

  • H. M. Keith, Convulsive Disorders in Children Boston: Little, Brown, 1963, 167–172.

    THE NEW ATKINS FOR A NEW YOU Dr. Eric C. Westman 2010

  • Convulsive therapy was introduced in the mid-1930s, when scientists discovered that by triggering a seizure, they were able to shock psychiatric patients back into a functioning state of mind.

    High-Powered Treatment 2008

  • Convulsive shivering made me move faster, and in seconds I made the tree line, found an appropriately screened area, and took care of bladder issues.

    Thin Air Rachel Caine 2007

  • Convulsive motions agitate his legs, so that though he wills it ever so much, he cannot by any power of his mind stop their motion, (as in that odd disease called chorea sancti viti), but he is perpetually dancing; he is not at liberty in this action, but under as much necessity of moving, as a stone that falls, or a tennis-ball struck with a racket.

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • Convulsive sobs took all nerve out of her utterance.

    A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

  • SOLEDAD O'BRIEN: Convulsive therapy is what worked for you, along with a lot of other things.

    CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2006 2006

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