title: [Electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock and shock therapy in the newspaper].
abstract: Newspapers reports on ECT are extremely biased. A quantitative analysis of four German and Swiss papers demonstrates impressingly the change of meaning of synonymous terms like "Elektroschock" and "Schocktherapie" which refer to torture and brutal reforms of Eastern European communist economies.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik, Basel.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Hoffmann-Richter
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Alder
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Finzen
mesh_terms: D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D009524:Newspapers as Topic; D011639:Public Opinion; D013557:Switzerland