Both Uses of
electroconvulsive therapy
in
Girl Interrupted
- We watched Cynthia come back crying from electroshock once a week.†
*electroshock = the induction of an artificial seizure in a patient by passing electricity through the brain
- And this way we all passed through a month or two, Lisa and the catatonics in the TV room, Polly walking like a motorized corpse, Cynthia crying after electroshock ("I'm not sad," she explained to me, "but I can't help crying"), and me and Georgina in our double suite.†
Definition:
a controversial psychiatric treatment that passes electricity through the brain to induce an artificial seizure