Pushbutton Psychiatry: A Cultural History of Electric Shock in America (Paperback, Updated)

* Preface vii* Acknowledgments xv* Introduction to the Updated Edition: Electricity, Psychiatry, and American Culture xvii* Part I: The Electrotherapeutic Origins of Pushbutton Psychiatry 1* The Eighteenth Century: The Electric Stage 3* The Nineteenth Century: The Woman on the Couch 21* Part II: The Electroconvulsive Century 41* The Birth and Triumph of Pushbutton Psychiatry: Electroshock, 1938-1965 43* Rage Against the Machine: The Decline of Electroshock, 1966-1980 63* Pushbutton Triumphant: The Rebirth of Electroshock, 1981-1999 85* Epilogue to the Updated Edit