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In Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940), Dr. Kildare uses the insulin treatment to treat a patient ("an insane man").
Catherine Fawley is treated with insulin in London after becoming deranged in Iris Murdoch's 1958 novel The Bell.
Esther Greenwood in Sylvia Plath's 1967 novel The Bell Jar receives insulin shock therapy while hospitalized.
Insulin shock therapy was featured and dramatized in the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind, based on the life of John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Dr. House in the US TV series House, initiated insulin shock therapy on himself in a season 5 episode (Under My Skin) in an attempt to eliminate hallucinations caused by Vicodin abuse.
In his fictional memoir A Fan's Notes, Frederick Exley describes the insulin shock therapy treatment he received as a psychiatric patient in New York.
The American singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt was given insulin shock therapy, as a result of which he lost most of his memories of his childhood.
Carl Solomon's insulin shock treatments form part of the subject matter of Allen Ginsberg's poem HOWL.
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