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ECT custom and practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John Pippard
John Pippard*
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Royal College of Psychiatrists
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The 50th anniversary of the first ECT provides an opportunity to look back and reconsider whether we are using this important treatment as well as we might.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 12 , Issue 11 , November 1988 , pp. 473 - 475
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