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The Effect of Electro-Convulsive Therapy on Initiative

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

G. H. Collins  and
M. Bassett
M. Bassett
Affiliation:
Barnwood House, Gloucester
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Helping the senile patient is not easy, and treatment today is largely palliative. Recent cybernetic work (Ashby, 2), however, offered a suggestion that some alleviation might be possible. This paper describes briefly the underlying theory and how we investigated the matter clinically. (Only an outline of the theory can be given here.)

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 105 , Issue 440 , July 1959 , pp. 863 - 868
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1959 

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