Electroshock therapy

Electric shock therapy refers to the use of electric shocks , i.e. the brief and deliberate action of electricity on an organism for the purpose of therapy.

• Defibrillation : to end life-threatening ventricular fibrillation or cardiac arrest
• former name for electroconvulsive therapy for the treatment of severe mental illnesses
• minor electric shocks in aversion therapy , a behavior therapy

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.