The fourth edition of this popular Handbook provides the latest guidance on prescribing and administering electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Leading researchers a

This book is the need-to-know guide to the practice of modern electroconvulsive therapy.

This book presents the latest clinical guidelines for psychiatrists who prescribe ECT and practitioners who administer it. It clarifies the place of ECT in cont

Increasingly, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is recognized as a proven, effective, and even life-saving intervention in certain mood and thought disorders when

Since the development of pharmacoconvulsive therapy in 1934 and of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in 1938, ECT has proven far more valuable than just the inter