List of contributors; Preface to the fourth edition; 1. The place of ECT and related treatments in contemporary UK psychiatry I. Nicol Ferrier; 2. Mechanism of action of ECT Philip J. Cowen; 3. ECT in the treatment of depression I. Nicol Ferrier; 4. ECT in mania (and mixed states) R. H. Mcallister-Williams; 5. Electroconvulsive therapy for bipolar disorder depression Ute Kessler; 6. ECT in older adults Stuart Watson, Jane Newby and Phil Laws; 7. ECT in people with an intellectual disability Peter Cutajar and Jo Jones; 8. ECT in pregnancy and postnatally Alain Gregoire and Joanne Spoors; 9. Electroconvulsive therapy in children and adolescents Rosalind Y. K. Oliphant, Eleanor M. Smith and Aditya Narain Sharma; 10. The use of ECT in the treatment of schizophrenia Richard Braithwaite; 11. The use of ECT in the treatment of catatonia Richard Braithwaite; 12. ECT in neuropsychiatric disorders Jasvinder Singh and David Andrew Cousins; 13. Cognitive side-effects of ECT Martha Finnegan and Declan M. Mcloughlin; 14. Non-cognitive adverse effects of ECT Jonathan Waite; 15. Transcranial magnetic stimulation Alex O'Neill-Kerr and Sudheer Lankappa; 16. Neurosurgery for mental disorder Keith Matthews and Christine Matthews; 17. Ketamine for psychiatric disorders Rupert McShane; 18. The ECT accreditation service (ECTAS) Jill Emerson; 19. The Scottish ECT accreditation network (SEAN) Linda Cullen and Alistair Hay; 20. Medical training for psychiatrists in ECT Vimal Sivasanker and Ian Nnatu; 21. Nursing care of the patient receiving ECT and the roles of the ECT nurse Kara Hannigan; 22. Treatment suites and practical aspects of ECT Ross A. Dunne, Alex O'Neill-Kerr, Declan McLoughlin and Jonathan Waite; 23. Anaesthesia for electroconvulsive therapy Godfrey M Bwalya, Rahul Bajekal and Jonathan Waite; 24. Dental issues related to ECT Denis Martin, revised by Basel Switzer; 25. Interactions between ECT and prescribed medication Ian M. Anderson; 26. Seizure monitoring in ECT David M. Semple and Ryan Alexander Devlin; 27. Safe ECT practice in people with a physical illness Jonathan Waite; 28. Capacity, consent and the law Jonathan Waite; 29. Patients' and carers' and the public's perspectives on ECT and related treatments Jonathan Waite; Index.