The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma

Usage examples of electroshock.

They tried metapsychic deep-redact and deprivation conditioning and multiphase electroshock and narcotherapy and old-time religion.

They had all rehearsed in resuscitation procedures: mouth-to-mouth, sternum compression to get the heart pumping, electroshock paddles, endotracheal intubation, cricothyroidotomy, tracheostomy.

Before, it might have taken him two weeks to escape the fog brought on by the electroshock therapy.

But I do know that you don't give a person electroshock therapy to restore memories.

Well, I thought, at least they'll end it here, with Thorny a failure at both thirteen-drug lotto and electroshock therapy.

She was afraid Sinsemilla would burst out of the bedroom and be among them in a wicked-witch whirl, or pursue them in a shrieking fit, all the stored-up flash of electroshock therapy sizzling back out of her in a fury, and that in an instant she would put an end to all hope—.

At Porter, I had been subjected to electroshock therapy over the span of several days, results ambiguous but presumably involving the return of a few memories.

The effect of the electroshock therapy upon the daughter growing in her womb was unknown.

They're screwing a chair to the floor for you in the electroshock therapy room.

Trashcan Man had never read much history (after the electroshock therapy, reading had gotten sort of tough for him), but he didn't need to know that, in times of old, kings and emperors had often killed the bearers of bad news out of simple pique.

If there is no movement in the next four to six weeks, we'll go on with the standard electroshock therapy, but for now I would like to run the standard drug schedule again, plus a few not so standardI am thinking of both synthetic mescaline and psyilocybin, if you concur.

His clothing was one step up from a bum's, his hair hadn't been washed since the Reagan presidency, and his corpsewhite face was continually dancing with nervous twitches and tics that made him look like he was suffering through electroshock therapy.

We gave them drugs and electroshocks to disorient them and erase their recent memories, and put them into that model village.

Cameron performed hundreds of lobotomies and electroshock treatments at the behest of the CIA on unwitting patients in prisons and mental hospitals, and at his beloved Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal.

There was simple stuff like cardio-pulmonary resuscitation procedures, how to administer electroshock paddles, the use of chemicals like sodium bicarb.