The novel, The Shock Doctrine, by Naomi Klein consists twenty one chapters divided into seven parts. The novel also includes an introduction and a conclusion. The author could have potentially chosen this topic because she was curious of the correlation between original shock therapy and Milton Friedman’s economic shock theory. The topic, indefinitely interested Klein, as she felt the inclination to conduct further research and see where Friedman’s theory had actually taken place within the
Shock Therapy Shock Therapy is a treatment used to adjust a patient’s brain function in psychiatric disorders. There are different kinds of shock therapy including Electroconvulsive Therapy, Insulin Therapy and Hydrotherapy. The first kind of shock therapy is Electroconvulsive therapy or ECT. The common name is electroshock therapy. The way ECT is administered is by putting electrodes on the patient’s temples, and then providing a shock to their head causing the patient to have a seizure. (Wade
In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein exposes how institutions use disaster, war, and instability to impose free market systems onto ‘shocked’ and desperate countries and industries in order to gain profit. Klein compares disaster capitalism to electroshock therapy and how it allows institutions to exploit the ‘shocked’ into reforming. These reformations usually result in more destruction and disparity for the majority and often only benefits the small elite. This is why institutions implement these
get results. One of the most common methods of treatment was electroconvulsive therapy. Also known was shock therapy, electroconvulsive therapy was mainly used to treat schizophrenia, severe depression, and homosexuality(Timeline,2). Discovered by Italian neurologist, Dr. Ugo Cerletti. He first used the electroshock to provoke repeatable reliable epileptic fits in dogs and other animals ("The History of Shock Therapy in Psychiatry "). The process involved alternating current between the skull, ceasing
Shock Wave Therapy Might Be A Treatment Consideration For Your Chronic Plantar Fasciitis Pain If you've been suffering with plantar fasciitis pain for a long time, you've probably tried all kinds of treatments for it. Sometimes plantar fasciitis heals on its own and other times conservative treatments like physical therapy and splints can help quite a bit. In some cases, treatments don't seem to help. Before your podiatrist considers surgery, he or she may want to try shock wave therapy. It's not
movie “The Shock Doctrine” and reading the article “Blank is Beautiful: Three Decades of Erasing and Remaking the World” my view point of globalization and capitalism totally changed. I personally did not like the way people in command used people in crisis for their own advantage and naming it as “Shock Therapy” to improve the society. Where the therapy only worked for the wealthy and people at higher position and the rest of the innocent people had to suffer because of them. “The Shock Doctrine”
This is a perfect demonstration of the second method of Shock Therapy. The goal of this type of shock therapy was to change the way homosexuals see the same sex by associating their “wrong” sexual thoughts, with pain. This was done by strapping the homosexual patient to a chair and attaching electrodes to them. Then they would start showing the patient a mixture of stimulating slides (such as erotic slides) and neutral slides (Scot, 2013).No shocks would be delivered when the slides were neutral but
Chilean Economic Shock Therapy Chile is seen to be the quintessential model of liberal restructuring in Latin America in the late twentieth century. After the overthrow of the socialist regime of Salvador Allende in 1973, Chile’s government has implemented an authoritative economic restructuring program that replaced state intervention with market incentives and opened Chile to the global economy. This four-phase process transformed the economy from highly protective industrialized to
In times of distress, people will tend to be more easily influenced, corrupt government officials often take advantage of this aspect of American society to boost otherwise unpopular neoliberal reforms. This phenomenon is called Shock therapy an example of which would include the signing of the Patriot Act following the disaster of the world trade center on September 11, 2001. The U.S was in mass disorientation as corrupt government officials used this to promote the privatization of government
conditions. Ultrasound therapy, more precisely know as extracorporeal shock wave therapy, is used for treating, rather than diagnosing, medical conditions. In diagnostic ultrasound examinations, very high frequency (1 to 5 megahertz) sound waves are directed at the body’s internal structures from a probe placed in contact with the skin (Ultrasound scan,