Handbook of Ect [Spiral-bound]

Mark D. Beale (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1997

This handbook is a reference for experienced practitioners and a guidebook to residents who are learning ECT procedure. The authors provide an overview of all aspects of ECT delivery, including patient selection, treatment techniques, and patient aftercare, and describe the most recent technical advances. Developed as a complement to the "APA Task Force Report on the Practice of Electroconvulsive Therapy" the handbook should enable clinicians to perform ECT according to the Task Force's standards and help them make informed referrals to ECT practitioners.

Editorial Reviews

Review

...an essential guide for psychiatrists wishing to master the oldest, best, and yet most underused treatment for major depression -- Spencer Eth, M.D., Vice Chairman and Clinical Director, Department of Psychiatry, Saint Vincents Hospital and Medical Center, New York, New York

A truly excellent volume from an authorship which includes some of the leading experts in the clinical practice of ECT -- Russell T. Joffe, M.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

Good things sometimes come in small packages, and Kellner and colleagues' Handbook of ECT is one of them. -- Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, and Behavioral Neurology

About the Author

Charles H. Kellner, M.D.,is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Professor in the Department of Neurology, at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina.

John T. Pritchett, M.D.,is is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina.

Mark D. Beale, M.D.,is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina.

C. Edward Coffey, M.D.,is Vice President of Behavioral Services and Chairman and Kathleen and Earl Ward Chair of Psychiatry in the Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 122 pages
• Publisher: American Psychiatric Association; 1st edition (January 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 088048683X
• ISBN-13: 978-0880486835
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,395,695 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent information about "the treatment of last resort.", March 29, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Handbook of Ect (Spiral-bound)

I picked up the book with a strong bia against ECT. The book addressed many of those biases and demonstrated that those biases were for the most part false. The book points out the fact that people fear what they do not understand, and ECT is much misunderstood.

I recomend this book to anyone who's physician has suggested ECT as the best treatment available. One need not live with crippling depression, nor live with a baseless fear of an effective treatment.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interested, July 25, 2002

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jim - See all my reviews

This review is from: Handbook of Ect (Spiral-bound)

Its amazing to me how people critque illnesses they have no idea about. Ect is a last hope procedure. It is a rough procedure but would u rather kill yourself or have this done to you. I think the ladder would be the ideal option. Depression is a disease , just like cancer just like aids, until people can distinquish this fact, depression and ect will be stigmatized by morons such as this reviewers are here. I had depression for 6 yrs and nothing has help except ECT , i strongly recommend it this book and the procedure. And clueless people that say ECT is bad ECT is horrible, it is nothing compared to the horrors of depression and living on this crappy planet. So to the ones that say ect is destroying your mind, your mind is already destroyed by depression. Ect is hope and the nay sayers just so there ignorance.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Handbook, April 6, 2001

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Jim Staudenmeier "jstauden" (Honolulu, HI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Handbook of Ect (Spiral-bound)

Book is fine. Useful. It is ashame that folks with strong false beliefs badmouth the book and ECT. They are wrong. If my choice was for ECT or for taking a bunch of pills day after day I would go for ECT. James Staudenmeier, MD, MPH (Health Services Administration)