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Deep sleep therapy Deep sleep therapy - WikipediaDeep sleep therapyFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to navigationJump to searchPsychiatric treatmentDeep sleep therapy (DST), also called prolonged sleep treatment or continuous narcosis, is a discredited form of ostensibly psychiatric treatment in which drugs are used to keep patients unconscious for a period of days or weeks scandal[edit]Deep sleep therapy was also practiced (in combination with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and other therapies) by Harry Bailey between 1962 and 1979 in Pennant Hills, New South Wales, at the Chelmsford Private Hospital. As practiced by Bailey, deep sleep therapy involved long periods of barbiturate-induced unconsciousness. It was prescribed for various conditions including schizophrenia

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][28] Lobotomy was one of a series of radical and invasive physical therapies developed in Europe at this time that signaled a break with a psychiatric culture of therapeutic nihilism that had prevailed since the late nineteenth-century.[29] The new "heroic" physical therapies devised during this experimental era,[30] including malarial therapy for general paresis of the insane (1917),[31] deep sleep therapy (1920), insulin shock therapy (1933), cardiazol shock therapy (1934), and electroconvulsive therapy (1938),[32] helped to imbue the then therapeutically moribund and demoralised psychiatric profession with a renewed sense of optimism in the curability of insanity and the potency of their craft.[33] The success of the shock therapies, despite the considerable risk they posed to patients, also

Fletcher. In the 1960s and 1970s, building upon liberal theory and procedural justice, much of the discourse of medical ethics went through a dramatic shift and largely reconfigured itself into bioethics.[21]Well-known medical ethics cases include: * Albert Kligman's dermatology experiments * Deep sleep therapy * Doctors' Trial * Greenberg v. Miami Children's Hospital Research Institute * Henrietta Lacks

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to any therapeutic intervention.[59] Malarial therapy was followed in 1920 by barbiturate-induced deep sleep therapy to treat dementia praecox, which was popularised by the Swiss psychiatrist Jakob Klaesi. In 1933 the Vienna-based psychiatrist Manfred Sakel introduced insulin shock therapy, and in August 1934 Ladislas J. Meduna, a Hungarian neuropathologist and psychiatrist working in Budapest

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therapy and electroconvulsive therapy), deep sleep therapy, and psychosurgery. Insulin coma therapy and the convulsive therapies are collectively known as the shock therapies.Contents * 1 Origins * 2 Technique * 3 Effects * 4 Decline * 5 Recent writing * 5.1 A Beautiful Mind * 5.2 Other explanations * 6 Representation in media * 7 See also * 8 References * 9 External linksOrigins[edit]In 1927 Plath's The Bell Jar refers to insulin shock therapy in chapter 15.Faces in the Water by Janet Frame The Women's Press Fiction 1980 Chapter XV[citation needed]See also[edit] * Deep sleep therapy * Electroconvulsive therapy * Manfred SakelReferences[edit] 1. ^ a b c d e Neustatter WL (1948) Modern psychiatry in practice. London: 224. 2. ^ a b c d e f Jones, K (2000). "Insulin coma therapy