convulsive

• This was a convulsive, automatic act, rather than one of intent. —  043 - Cold Death
• Although not a surrealist, Gray does ascribe to the idea of convulsive beauty: beauty, even grim beauty, in the service of liberty. —  Ecstatic Days
• Aggressive religious deprogramming in conjunction with electro-convulsive therapy —  Dealbreaker
• An Angel at My Table was a very rewarding read, a history of mental illness, years in a mental hospital and depression treated with insulin and over two hundred sessions of electro-convulsive therapy, much-loved and respected writer, unbridled elation from Stella Duffy at the Du Maurier festival in Fowey when it was announced, during the —  dovegreyreader scribbles
• "He'd been in the hospital a couple of times over the summer and had undergone electro-convulsive therapy," James Wallace said. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper

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