Shock therapy

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
ST
Pronunciation
/ʃɑk ˈθɛrəpi/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Physiology

Examples in Context

  1. Shock therapy(ST) : Method of treating psychiatric disorders by inducing shock through drugs or electric current.
  2. He's not gonna perform shock therapy or a lobotomy, is he?
  3. I thought they outlawed shock therapy.
  4. This may sound like shock therapy, but it is better than a slow death by starvation.
  5. The use of shock therapy to treat Internet addiction is still controversial in clinical application.

Other meanings of ST

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