[Electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock and shock therapy in the newspaper].
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.
Hoffmann-Richter
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Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik, Basel.
Alder
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Finzen
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D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D009524:Newspapers as Topic; D011639:Public Opinion; D013557:Switzerland