Pushbutton psychiatry : a cultural history of electroshock in America / by Timothy W. Kneeland, Carol A.B. Warren.

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast ; Oxford : Berg [distributor], 2008.

xxvii, 135 pages ; 23 cm

Updated ed.

Previous edition: Westport, Conn.; London: Praeger, 2002.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Electricity, psychiatry, and American culture -- Part 1: Electrotherapeutic Origins Of Pushbutton Psychiatry -- 1: Eighteenth century: the electric stage -- 2: Nineteenth century: the woman on the couch -- Part 2: Electroconvulsive Century -- 3: Birth and triumph of pushbutton psychiatry: electroshock, 1938-1965 -- 4: Rage against the machine: the decline of electroshock, 1966-1980 -- 5: Pushbutton triumphant: the rebirth of electroshock, 1981-1999 -- Epilogue: Into the twenty-first century -- Bibliography -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.