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An evaluation of the “shock” therapies

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Presented before the Missouri Psychiatric Association, Kansas City, Mo., November 15, 1944.

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Bennett, A.E. An evaluation of the “shock” therapies. Psych Quar 19, 465–477 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01572648

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