Lothar Kalinowsky (December 28, 1899, in Berlin – June 28, 1992, in New York) was an American

psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry. Psychiatrists are physicians who evaluate patients to determine whether their symptoms are the result of a physical illness, a combination of physical and mental ailments or strictly ...

best known for advocating

electroconvulsive therapy Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a psychiatry, psychiatric treatment that causes a generalized seizure by passing electrical current through the brain. ECT is often used as an intervention for mental disorders when other treatments are inadequ ...

.Pace, Eric (June 30, 1992)
Lothar Kalinowsky, A Psychiatrist, 92; Used Electroshocks.
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''Kneeland TW, Warren CAB (2002). ''Pushbutton Psychiatry: A History of Electroshock in America.'' Praeger, He contributed to the second edition of the ''

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders The ''Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders'' (''DSM''; latest edition: ''DSM-5-TR'', published in March 2022) is a publication by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for the classification of mental disorders using a com ...

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1899 births American psychiatrists Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1992 deaths 20th-century American physicians {{Psychiatrist-stub