DR. REUBEN R. GOULD, PIONEERED USE OF ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) - Thursday, July 2, 1992
When Dr. Reuben Robert Gould began his 53-year career in neurology and the new field of psychiatry in 1934, patients with depression or schizophrenia were given cold baths to calm them down. Insulin comas were induced in some cases. Dr. Gould pioneered in the use of electroconvulsive therapy for the treatment of psychiatric illnesses. He was one of the first Cleveland doctors to use shock therapy, which today is recognized as a treatment for depression, according to his daughter, also a psychiatrist. "There were no medications," she explained. "Anti-depressants didn't come around until the 1950s, lithium in the 1970s."
Dr. Gould, 86, of Shaker Heights, died Tuesday at Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, O. A native of Cleveland, he graduated from Adelbert College in 1926, earned a master's degree from Western Reserve University in 1927 and received a medical degree from WRU School of Medicine in 1931.
Dr. Gould interned at Mount Sinai Hospital and was a resident in neuropsychiatry at Cleveland City Hospital before entering private practice in 1934.
He was on the visiting staff of neuropsychiatry at St. Luke's Hospital from 1938 to 1958. In the 1940s, he also was chief of staff at Windsor Hospital in Chagrin Falls. He continued to be affiliated with that hospital until his retirement in 1987 at the age of 81.
Dr. Gould is survived by 2 sons, 3 daughters, 13 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and three sisters.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Berkowitz-Kumin-Bookatz memorial chapel, 1985 S. Taylor Rd., Cleveland Heights.
Note: Name changed from Goldberg to Gould.
Names of living persons redacted per Find A Grave rules.
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) - Thursday, July 2, 1992
When Dr. Reuben Robert Gould began his 53-year career in neurology and the new field of psychiatry in 1934, patients with depression or schizophrenia were given cold baths to calm them down. Insulin comas were induced in some cases. Dr. Gould pioneered in the use of electroconvulsive therapy for the treatment of psychiatric illnesses. He was one of the first Cleveland doctors to use shock therapy, which today is recognized as a treatment for depression, according to his daughter, also a psychiatrist. "There were no medications," she explained. "Anti-depressants didn't come around until the 1950s, lithium in the 1970s."
Dr. Gould, 86, of Shaker Heights, died Tuesday at Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, O. A native of Cleveland, he graduated from Adelbert College in 1926, earned a master's degree from Western Reserve University in 1927 and received a medical degree from WRU School of Medicine in 1931.
Dr. Gould interned at Mount Sinai Hospital and was a resident in neuropsychiatry at Cleveland City Hospital before entering private practice in 1934.
He was on the visiting staff of neuropsychiatry at St. Luke's Hospital from 1938 to 1958. In the 1940s, he also was chief of staff at Windsor Hospital in Chagrin Falls. He continued to be affiliated with that hospital until his retirement in 1987 at the age of 81.
Dr. Gould is survived by 2 sons, 3 daughters, 13 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and three sisters.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Berkowitz-Kumin-Bookatz memorial chapel, 1985 S. Taylor Rd., Cleveland Heights.
Note: Name changed from Goldberg to Gould.
Names of living persons redacted per Find A Grave rules.
DR. REUBEN R. GOULD, PIONEERED USE OF ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) - Thursday, July 2, 1992
When Dr. Reuben Robert Gould began his 53-year career in neurology and the new field of psychiatry in 1934, patients with depression or schizophrenia were given cold baths to calm them down. Insulin comas were induced in some cases. Dr. Gould pioneered in the use of electroconvulsive therapy for the treatment of psychiatric illnesses. He was one of the first Cleveland doctors to use shock therapy, which today is recognized as a treatment for depression, according to his daughter, also a psychiatrist. "There were no medications," she explained. "Anti-depressants didn't come around until the 1950s, lithium in the 1970s."
Dr. Gould, 86, of Shaker Heights, died Tuesday at Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, O. A native of Cleveland, he graduated from Adelbert College in 1926, earned a master's degree from Western Reserve University in 1927 and received a medical degree from WRU School of Medicine in 1931.
Dr. Gould interned at Mount Sinai Hospital and was a resident in neuropsychiatry at Cleveland City Hospital before entering private practice in 1934.
He was on the visiting staff of neuropsychiatry at St. Luke's Hospital from 1938 to 1958. In the 1940s, he also was chief of staff at Windsor Hospital in Chagrin Falls. He continued to be affiliated with that hospital until his retirement in 1987 at the age of 81.
Dr. Gould is survived by 2 sons, 3 daughters, 13 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and three sisters.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Berkowitz-Kumin-Bookatz memorial chapel, 1985 S. Taylor Rd., Cleveland Heights.
Note: Name changed from Goldberg to Gould.
Names of living persons redacted per Find A Grave rules.
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) - Thursday, July 2, 1992
When Dr. Reuben Robert Gould began his 53-year career in neurology and the new field of psychiatry in 1934, patients with depression or schizophrenia were given cold baths to calm them down. Insulin comas were induced in some cases. Dr. Gould pioneered in the use of electroconvulsive therapy for the treatment of psychiatric illnesses. He was one of the first Cleveland doctors to use shock therapy, which today is recognized as a treatment for depression, according to his daughter, also a psychiatrist. "There were no medications," she explained. "Anti-depressants didn't come around until the 1950s, lithium in the 1970s."
Dr. Gould, 86, of Shaker Heights, died Tuesday at Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, O. A native of Cleveland, he graduated from Adelbert College in 1926, earned a master's degree from Western Reserve University in 1927 and received a medical degree from WRU School of Medicine in 1931.
Dr. Gould interned at Mount Sinai Hospital and was a resident in neuropsychiatry at Cleveland City Hospital before entering private practice in 1934.
He was on the visiting staff of neuropsychiatry at St. Luke's Hospital from 1938 to 1958. In the 1940s, he also was chief of staff at Windsor Hospital in Chagrin Falls. He continued to be affiliated with that hospital until his retirement in 1987 at the age of 81.
Dr. Gould is survived by 2 sons, 3 daughters, 13 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and three sisters.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Berkowitz-Kumin-Bookatz memorial chapel, 1985 S. Taylor Rd., Cleveland Heights.
Note: Name changed from Goldberg to Gould.
Names of living persons redacted per Find A Grave rules.
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