ECT: Serendipity or Logical Outcome?

Max Fink

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| January 1, 2004

Dr. Fink is professor of psychiatry and neurology emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of Electroshock: Restoring the Mind (Oxford University Press) and founder of the quarterly journal Convulsive Therapy (J ECT).

Meduna's careful and deliberate study followed the classic principles of clinical observation, hypothesis, and experimentation in animals and then in man. He has given us an effective treatment that is the hope of many seriously ill despite its stigmatization and legislative restrictions. On this anniversary, Meduna deserves our praise.

Further Reading

Fink M (1999), Images in Psychiatry. Ladislas J. Meduna, M.D. 1869-1964. Am J Psychiatry 156(11):1807.

Meduna L (1985), Autobiography. Convulsive Ther 1:43-57, 121-135.

Meduna L (1935), Versuche ber die biologische Beeinflussung des Ablaufes der Schizophrenie: Campher und Cardiozolkr„mpfe. Zeitschrift fr die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie 152:235-262.

Meduna L (1937), Die Konvulsionstherapie der Schizophrenie. Halle, Germany: Carl Marhold.

Meduna L (1956), The convulsive treatment: a reappraisal. In: The Great Physiodynamic Therapies in Psychiatry, Sackler AM, Sackler MD, Sackler RR, Marti-Ibanez F, eds. New York: Hoeber-Harper, pp76-90.

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