Electroconvulsive therapy: The second most controversial medical procedure

Psychiatric Times

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Kellner, Charles H ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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