shock therapy
Brain current treatment
Shock therapy refers to two distinct practices.
In medicine, it means electroconvulsive therapy—applying electrical current to the brain to treat severe depression or other mental disorders.
In economics, shock therapy is the abrupt implementation of drastic reforms, typically rapid privatization and deregulation to transition from a planned to a market economy: Russia underwent shock therapy in the 1990s.
Both senses share the idea of sudden, dramatic intervention rather than gradual change.
Seizure-inducing psychiatric treatment
- general anesthesiaDrug-induced unconsciousness for surgery
- muscle relaxantAgent reducing tissue tension
- memory lossFailure to recall
- bilateralInvolving two parties
unilateral · brief pulse · psychiatric hospital · informed consent · recovery room · remission
Reducing state economic controls
- privatizationState sells public assets
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- hyperinflationExtreme rapid price escalation
market reform · IMF · World Bank · fiscal discipline · monetarism · neoliberalism · post-Soviet · Poland
ECT
Seizure-inducing psychiatric treatment
- general anesthesiaDrug-induced unconsciousness for surgery
- muscle relaxantAgent reducing tissue tension
- memory lossFailure to recall
bilateral · unilateral · brief pulse · psychiatric hospital · informed consent · recovery room · remission
liberalization
Reducing state economic controls
- privatizationState sells public assets
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
hyperinflation · market reform · IMF · World Bank · fiscal discipline · monetarism · neoliberalism · post-Soviet · Poland · Russia
- Bioelectricsbioelectricity, electrotherapy, electrical stimulation, action potential, depolarization
- Neuromodulationdeep brain stimulation, DBS, neurostimulator, neuromodulation, neural implant
- economic policymonetary policy, tax policy, fiscal discipline, fiscal stimulus, fiscal restraint
- mind tropesmad scientist, mental breakdown, mind control, multiple personality, nervous breakdown
- psychiatric carepsychotherapy, psychiatry, psychiatrist, medication, CBT
- shocksanaphylaxis, aftershock
shock therapytalk therapy
Psychological treatment via conversation
psychotherapy · counseling · psychoanalysis · cognitive behavioral therapy · supportive therapy
shock therapygradualism
Philosophy of incremental change
incrementalism · soft landing · evolutionary change · conservative treatment · watchful waiting
shock therapyconservative treatment
Non-surgical medical management
supportive care · watchful waiting · holistic healing · natural healing
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