Psychiatric Electroceutical Interventions-Really?
Out on PubMed, from researchers at Michigan State University, is this study: Last Resort Interventions?: A Qualitative Study of Psychiatrists' Experience with and Views on Psychiatric Electroceutical Interventions. Cabrera LY, Nowak GR 3rd, McCright AM, Achtyes E, Bluhm R. Psychiatr Q. 2020 Aug 13. doi: 10.1007/s11126-020-09819-1. Online ahead of print. PMID: 32789719 The abstract is copied here: Psychiatrists play an important role in providing access to psychiatric electrical interventions (PEIs) such as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). As such, their views on these procedures likely influence whether they refer or provide these types of treatments for their clinically depressed patients. Despite this, scholars have too infrequently examined psychiatrists' views about specific PEIs and have not yet examined their views across different PEIs. To gain insight into psychiatrists' views about PEIs, we conducted a qualitative study