Shock therapy

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Shock therapy or shock treatment may refer to:

Psychiatry

• A Shock therapy (psychiatry) such as:
  • Electroconvulsive therapy, a psychiatric treatment
  • Insulin shock therapy, a psychiatric treatment in which patients were repeatedly injected with large doses of insulin in order to produce comas
  • Convulsive therapy, using pentylenetetrazol or other agents to induce seizures
  • Deep Sleep Therapy

• Linguistic Shock Therapy, developed by Milton H. Erickson to bypass the critical factor of the conscious mind

Entertainment

• Shock Treatment (1964 film), a 1964 film, starring Stuart Whitman, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowell and Lauren Bacall
• Shock Treatment (1969 film), a West German film
• Shock Treatment (Don Ellis album), 1968
• Shock Treatment (1973 film), a 1973 film
• Shock Treatment (Edgar Winter album), 1974
• Shock Treatment, the 1981 follow up to The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Shock Treatment (1995 film), a 1995 television film
• Shock Treatment (TV series), a 2005 reality entertainment documentary
• Shock Treatment (Krizz Kaliko album), a 2010 album by Krizz Kaliko
• Shock Treatment, a finishing move used by Chris Parks a.k.a. Abyss

Other uses

• Shock therapy (economics), the sudden release of price and currency controls