The Use of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Suicidal Patients

Fred H. Frankel, M.B.Ch.B., D.P.M.Authors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 38, Number 3

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1984.38.3.384

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ECT is valuable in the treatment of appropriately selected cases of suicidal behavior. These are patients with major affective illness. The suicidal threats and concerns of patients with personality disorders are not likely to respond to ECT except in the presence of a complicating depressive illness.

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American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 38 • Number 3 • 1984, pp. 317–468

Pages: 384 - 391

PubMed: 6486285

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Published in print: 1984, pp. 317–468

Published online: 30 April 2018

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Fred H. Frankel, M.B.Ch.B., D.P.M.^†

Boston, Mass.

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Presented at the 24th Emit A. Gutheil Memorial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, November 5-6, 1983, New York, N.Y.

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Director of Clinical Psychiatry, Beth Israel Hospital, 330 Brookline Ave., Boston, MA 02215; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.

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The Use of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Suicidal Patients

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