List of people who have undergone electroconvulsive therapy

This is a list of notable cases of treatment with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).

List

• Linda Andre, American author, activist, director of the Committee for Truth in Psychiatry (CTIP), and self-described psychiatric survivor.^[1][2]
• Antonin Artaud, French poet and playwright^[3][4]
• Beverley Callard, English television actress^[5]
• Dick Cavett, American television talk show host^[6]
• Sue Clark-Wittenberg, Canadian antipsychiatry activist, Director of The International Campaign to Ban Electroshock (ICBE) ^[7]
• Ted Chabasinski, American attorney, activist, and self-described psychiatric survivor who received ECT at six years of age.^[8][9]
• Clementine Churchill, wife of Sir Winston Churchill ^[10]
• Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist^[11]
• Simone D., a pseudonym for a psychiatric patient in the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in New York,^[12] who in 2007 won a court ruling which set aside a two-year-old court order to give her electroshock treatment against her will^[13][14]
• Ken Donaldson, author ^[15]
• 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,^[16] a book chronicling her experiences with ECT^[17]
• Thomas Eagleton, US senator and vice presidential candidate^[18]
• Roky Erickson, American singer, songwriter, harmonica player and guitarist^[19]
• Carrie Fisher, American actress and novelist^[20] Fisher speaks at length of her experiences with ECT in her autobiography Wishful Drinking.
• Janet Frame, New Zealand writer and poet^[21]
• Leonard Roy Frank, is a published author, human rights activist, and self-described psychiatric survivor.^[22][23]
• Wendy Funk-Robitaille, author and self-described psychiatric survivor.^[24]
• Judy Garland, Singer, dancer, actress.
• Harold Gimblett, British cricketer^[25]
• Julie Goodyear, English actress from Coronation Street.^[26]
• Peter Green, English blues guitarist, founding member of Fleetwood Mac.^[27][28]
• David Helfgott, Australian pianist^[29]
• Ernest Hemingway, American Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, Nobel Laureate, short-story writer, and journalist^[30][31]
• Marya Hornbacher, American writer^[32]
• Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-American classical pianist^[33]
• Celia Imrie, English actress^[34]
• Vivien Leigh, English actress and second wife of Laurence Olivier^[35]
• Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, television and film personality^[36]
• Karolina Olsson, the "Sleeping Beauty of Oknö"
• Carmen Miranda, Luso-Brazilian Singer, dancer, actress.
• Michael Moriarty, American actor^[37]
• Sherwin B. Nuland, American surgeon and writer^[38]
• Sam Phillips, founder, Sun Records, discoverer of Elvis Presley ^[39]
• 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^[40][41]
• Emil Post, American mathematician, died in 1954 of a heart attack following electroshock treatment for depression;^[42][43] he was 57.
• Bud Powell, American jazz musician^[44]
• Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter ^[45][46]
• Marilyn Rice, anti-electroconvulsive therapy activist^[47]
• Yves Saint-Laurent, French fashion designer^[48]
• 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^[49]
• Edie Sedgwick, American socialite and Warhol Superstar^[50]
• Gene Tierney, American actress^[51]
• Townes van Zandt, American country singer-songwriter^[52]
• David Foster Wallace, American writer ^[53]

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