shock therapy

1. 1.

   treatment of certain psychotic states by the administration of shocks that are followed by convulsions

   Synonymsshock treatment

   Broadertherapy

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Questions about shock therapy

What does shock therapy mean?

shock therapy means "treatment of certain psychotic states by the administration of shocks that are followed by convulsions".

What is another word for shock therapy?

Close synonyms include shock treatment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shock therapy a common word?

shock therapy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.