The clinical apparatus — E.C.T., tricyclics and M.A.O. inhibitors, the psych ward, the fellow patient — is shared…
echoes
From: The Planet Trillaphon as It Stands in Relation to the Bad Thing
- Early text:
[scene] E.C.T. ("Electro-Convulsive Therapy") and its legal
consent regime; the two antidepressant families named as tricyclics and M.A.O.
inhibitors with the latter's dietary restrictions; the hospital floor and the
fellow patient May, killed by her boyfriend's drunk driving (Amherst Review
pp. 30-33).
- IJ echo: Kate Gompert's ward and the case of Mr. Ernest Feaster (scene 135,
pp. 697-698): failed treatments listed as "Tricyclics, M.A.O.I.s,
insulin-comas, Selective-Serotonin-Reuptake Inhibitors... Quadracyclics", and,
of the shock therapy the Trillaphon narrator's own doctors weigh, "Not even
high-amperage E.C.T. relieved It." (scene 024, pp. 68-78, carries Gompert's own
ward and prior suicide attempt).
- Weight: verbal-echo