Posted by ed_uk on November 28, 2004, at 9:59:36
Has anyone on psycho-babble ever had insulin coma therapy? I get the impression that most people on psycho-babble are fairly young so I very much doubt that anyone has. Even so, it would be interesting to hear peoples opinions on this archaic form of 'treatment'.
Here is a little summary of ICT.....
'Insulin coma therapy was a commonly used therapy for schizophrenia from the 1930s until the first antipsychotic drugs were discovered in the 1950s. It should not be confused with convulsive therapy, which was also used to treat schizophrenia (and many other mental illnesses) during the same period. Insulin coma therapy involved controlled dosing of insulin to induce a hypoglycemic coma lasting several hours. Treatments were given on a daily basis, and the low blood sugar sometimes resulted in seizures or irreversible coma. When effective medications became available for people with schizophrenia, insulin coma therapy was abandoned in the United States.'
Ed.
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