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When electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT) was introduced as a treatment for schizophrenia in the 1903s, what was the rationale for using shock therapy for these patients?

◦ The psychiatrist who introduced the treatment has a family member who suffered an electric shock and was ‘cured' of his ailments
◦ ECT was believed to be much more humane that the other treatments being offered at the time
◦ The psychiatric community was fed up with patients not cooperating with the treatments being offered
◦ The psychiatrist who introduced the treatment speculated that epilepsy and schizophrenia could not coexist in the same body
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