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List of people who have undergone electroconvulsive therapy
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This is a list of people treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
- Linda Andre, American author, activist, director of the Committee for Truth in Psychiatry (CTIP), and self-described psychiatric survivor.[1][2]
- Louis Althusser, French marxist philosopher[citation needed]
- Antonin Artaud, French poet and playwright[3][4]
- Dick Cavett, American television talk show host[5]
- Ted Chabasinski, American attorney, activist, and self-described psychiatric survivor who received ECT at six years of age.[6][7]
- Clementine Churchill, wife of Sir Winston Churchill [8]
- Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist[9]
- Simone D., a pseudonym for a psychiatric patient in the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in New York,[10] who in 2007 won a court ruling which set aside a two-year-old court order to give her electroshock treatment against her will[11][12]
- Duplessis Orphans Orphans of the 1950s in the province of Quebec, Canada, endured electroshock.
- Kitty Dukakis, wife of former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis and author of Shock,[13] a book chronicling her experiences with ECT[14]
- Thomas Eagleton, US senator and vice presidential candidate[15]
- Eduard Einstein (28 July 1910 – 25 October 1965) Albert Einstein's second son had ECT. Hans Albert Einstein, his brother thought the psychiatric treatment made him worse.[16]
- Roky Erickson, American singer, songwriter, harmonica player and guitarist[17]
- Frances Farmer, American film actress, who described standing in line with other girls at mental hospital waiting for shock treatments in the 1940s.
- Carrie Fisher, American actress and novelist[18] Fisher speaks at length of her experiences with ECT in her autobiography Wishful Drinking.
- Janet Frame, New Zealand writer and poet[19]
- Leonard Roy Frank, is a published author, human rights activist, and self-described psychiatric survivor.[20][21]
- Judy Garland, Singer, dancer, actress.
- Harold Gimblett, British cricketer[22]
- Julie Goodyear, English actress from Coronation Street.[23]
- Gloria Grahame Actress. (1964)
- Peter Green, English blues guitarist, founding member of Fleetwood Mac.[24][25]
- David Helfgott, Australian pianist[26]
- Ernest Hemingway, American Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, Nobel Laureate, short-story writer, and journalist[27][28]
- Gloria Hemingway, daughter of Ernest Hemingway
- Marya Hornbacher, American writer[29]
- Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-American classical pianist[30]
- Vivien Leigh, English actress and second wife of Laurence Olivier[31]
- Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, television and film personality[32]
- Carmen Miranda, Luso-Brazilian Singer, dancer, actress[citation needed]
- Michael Moriarty, American actor[33]
- Robbie Muir, Australian rules football player - when aged seven.[34]
- Sherwin B. Nuland, American surgeon and writer[35]
- Andrew Loog Oldham, manager of The Rolling Stones[citation needed]
- Karolina Olsson, the "Sleeping Beauty of Oknö"[citation needed]
- Sam Phillips, founder, Sun Records, discoverer of Elvis Presley [36]
- Robert M. Pirsig, who later wrote about his experience in the autobiographical novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
- Sylvia Plath, American writer and poet[37][38]
- Emil Post, American mathematician, died in 1954 of a heart attack following electroshock treatment for depression;[39][40] he was 57.
- Bud Powell, American jazz musician[41]
- Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter [42][43]
- Marilyn Rice, anti-electroconvulsive therapy activist[44]
- Paul Robeson, American bass singer and actor[45]
- Yves Saint-Laurent, French fashion designer[46]
- Peggy S. Salters, from South Carolina, in 2005 became the first survivor of electroshock treatment in the United States to win a jury verdict and a large money judgment ($635,177) in compensation for extensive permanent amnesia and cognitive disability caused by the procedure[47]
- Edie Sedgwick, American socialite and Warhol superstar[48]
- William Styron, American author[49]
- Gene Tierney, American actress[50]
- Townes van Zandt, American country singer-songwriter[51]
- David Foster Wallace, American writer [52]
- Mike Wallace, American journalist[53]
- Tammy Wynette, American country singer and composer, who described having a series of shock treatments for depression in her biography.[citation needed]
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