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How is somatotherapy used to treat mental disorders?
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Somatotherapy: Somatotherapy has generally been defined as the treatment of mental illness by physical means instead of psychotherapy. Physical means would be the use of treatments like drugs, electro-shock therapy (ECT) or surgical interventions. Most psychiatric interventions are either the use of drugs or ECT for drug resistant depressions.
Answered 11/29/2014
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