For more than 20 years, Kitty Dukakis battled severe depression with every medication and treatment available. But it wasn't until she tried electroconvulsive therapy--ECT--that she began getting her life back for good. Written with award-winning reporter Larry Tye, "Shock" tells how ECT dramatically changed Mrs. Dukakis's life, and offers a captivating look at the science behind ECT, the controversy surrounding it, and the history of its intriguing rebirth in this country.
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For more than 20 years, Kitty Dukakis battled severe depression with every medication and treatment available. But it wasn't until she tried electroconvulsive therapy--ECT--that she began getting her life back for good. Written with award-winning reporter Larry Tye, "Shock" tells how ECT dramatically changed Mrs. Dukakis's life, and offers a captivating look at the science behind ECT, the controversy surrounding it, and the history of its intriguing rebirth in this country.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. With remainder mark. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Good. Size: 9x6x1; 2006 signed and inscribed first edition Avery / Penguin (NY), 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches tall blue hardbound in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, paper-covered boards over cloth spine, purple lettering to spine, xiii, 289 pp. Very slight bumping to lower tips of book, with slight edgewear to covers. Remainder mark to bottom page edges. Prior owner name to front pastedown. Signed and inscribed by both authors on the title page. Otherwise, apart from slight marginal age toning, a very good copy-clean and unmarked-in a very good dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival sleeve. ~SP34~ Katharine Dickson Dukakis (b. 1936), known as Kitty Dukakis, is the wife of former Massachusetts governor and U.S. presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. During the 1988 presidential election, a number of false rumors were reported in the media about the Dukakises, including the claim by Idaho Republican Senator Steve Symms that Kitty Dukakis had burned a United States flag to protest the Vietnam War. Republican strategist Lee Atwater was accused of having initiated these rumors. In 1991, Dukakis published her memoir, Now You Know, in which she candidly discussed her ongoing battle with alcoholism. In 2006, she revealed having undergone electroconvulsive therapy treatment beginning in 2001 in order to treat major depression, publishing her experiences in this book, Shock. Written with award-winning medical reporter Larry Tye, Shock is both the personal story of how ECT dramatically changed Kitty Dukakis's life as well as a captivating look at the science behind ECT, the controversy surrounding it, and the history of its intriguing rebirth in this country. It was made into a documentary of the same name in 2007.