Talk:Karolina Olsson

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Did you know... that the Swedish woman Karolina Olsson purportedly stayed in a constant state of sleep for 32 years?

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I'm confused by the mention of her receiving electroshock therapy in 1892, as it was not created as a treatment as best I understood until decades later. --Epeefleche (talk) 05:36, 28 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The wikipedia article originally used the phrase "electric shock therapy", which may or may not appear in the sources on Karolina Olsson. I added the wikilink to electroshock therapy, and I have no idea if that would be a good translation. But see Richard Lovett (scientist). And these four sources are worth a look: Sabbatini, Renato M.E., PfD. "The History of Shock Therapy in Psychiatry".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link); Wright, Bruce A. M.D. "An Historical Review of Electro Convulsive Therapy". Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry: 66–74.. It includes the following:

The recent history of the therapeutic use of electricity dates to 1744 when the journal entitled " Electricity and Medicine" was first published. It was claimed here that electric stimuli could be curative for "neurologic and mental cases of paralysis and epilepsy (1)." J.B. LeRoy in the 1755 edition of " Electricity and Medicine" detailed a case of hysterical blindness which was cured with three applications of electric shock (1). In 1752, Benjamin Franklin recorded the use of an "electro static machine to cure a woman of hysterical fits (2)." By the mid 19th century the use of electrotherapy had so progressed that G.B.C. Duchenne (often referred to as the Father of Electrotherapy) would say, "No sincere neurologist could practice without the use of electrotherapy (1)." [Footnotes omitted]

A History of Mental Institutions in the United States which says electrostatic machines were used in 1773; Electroconsulsive Therapy – A History using date of 1746 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:09, 28 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Beveridge, A. W.; Renvoize, E. B. (1988). "Electricity: A History of its use in the Treatment of Mental Illness in Britain During the Second Half of the 19th Century" (PDF). British Journal of Psychiatry: 153, 157–162. Retrieved 28 December 2014. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:15, 28 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nowadays, they would simply say that she had received a concussion (which is why modern doctors don't let people go to sleep who have had them) and was unconscious... Stevenmitchell (talk) 00:54, 22 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]