We do not use electric shock therapy for treating addiction in the us, it is mainly used to treat depression with good results.

在美国，电击不会作为治疗瘾症的手段，仅应用于治疗抑郁症方面。

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Asked whether electric shock therapy would be used, the employee said it should be called "pulse therapy" and was only used in special circumstances.

当被问到是否使用电击疗法时，员工说正确名称是“脉冲疗法”，只在特殊情况下才会使用。

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For years, a treatment called electroconvulsive therapy (ect) also known as "electric shock treatment" has been used to induce seizures in anesthetized patients for therapeutic results.

多年来，一种被称作“电惊厥疗法”的治疗手段被用来使患者瞬间麻痹以获得良好的效果，这种疗法亦被称作“电击疗法”。

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Thirteen days later, Eagleton conceded what Democrats and journalists had been whispering about for days: that he had been hospitalized three times in the 1960s for depression and stress, and that he had undergone electric shock therapy.

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The student asked this question very gently and non-threateningly, but her directness and the fact that she was an African American woman herself caused her question to rattle around my brain like a course of electric shock therapy.

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He believes the nation would be best served by a short, sharp, electric-shock-therapy approach, enduring the short-term pain of austerity in exchange for the long-term gains derived from being part of a better European economy.

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