PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Agoraphobia, Comorbidity

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY240H1
• Professor: Hywel Morgan

Document Summary

With the exception of drug therapy, these are not frequently used. Electroconvulsive shock therapy (convulsive= it involves a seizure) Used extensively in the past, but currently not so much (still happens though) Used particularly to treat schizophrenia (as were ice bathed, wrapping, etc. ) Severe depression is still treated with ect. It is effective, but sometimes depression comes back. Not a psychosis but it looks psychotic. They do not eat, drink, move, or do anything. This isn"t common but not that rare either. Usually, medication and psychotherapy are the standard method of treatment. But the problem is consent; someone who isn"t responding cannot provide consent and therefore ect is typically administered without patient consent. The main side effect is memory loss, called retrograde amnesia , meaning that past long-term memories are lost (anterograde amnesia means that you can"t build new memories)