Such a development may be the shock therapy our creditors need to finally cut us off for good.

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Once Brien assumed the helm, it was a foregone conclusion that he will apply shock therapy to the sleepy McCann.

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Mr Dunlap is surely right that some firms need shock therapy.

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Though this shock therapy brought great hardship for ordinary Peruvians, it ended rampant hyperinflation and paved the way for sustained economic growth in the second half of the 1990s.

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Thirteen days later, Eagleton conceded what Democrats and journalists had been whispering about for days: that he had been hospitalized three times in the 1960s for depression and stress, and that he had undergone electric shock therapy.

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The student asked this question very gently and non-threateningly, but her directness and the fact that she was an African American woman herself caused her question to rattle around my brain like a course of electric shock therapy.

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For decades psychiatrists have used shock therapy to treat cases of depression that haven't been helped by antidepressant medications, and in recent years the treatment -- now known as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) -- has experienced something of a revival.

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"There are very few fans in the mainland for a big-bang or shock-therapy approach, " he notes.

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No government has found the courage to persuade France of the need for shock-therapy.

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He believes the nation would be best served by a short, sharp, electric-shock-therapy approach, enduring the short-term pain of austerity in exchange for the long-term gains derived from being part of a better European economy.

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But two recent studies, including one in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association and one in the British Medical Journal, found that heel patients who received shock wave therapy did no better than patients who received a fake treatment.

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Too much shock, not enough therapy, people complained.

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Some of the "real therapy" happens when the initial shock wears off, Olbrich said.

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