- Source: List of people who have undergone electroconvulsive therapy
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.
Louis Althusser, French marxist philosopher
Antonin Artaud, French poet and playwright
Dick Cavett, American television talk show host
Ted Chabasinski, American attorney, activist, and self-described psychiatric survivor who received ECT at six years of age.
Clementine Churchill, wife of Sir Winston Churchill
Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist
Simone D., a pseudonym for a psychiatric patient in the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in New York, who in 2007 won a court ruling which set aside a two-year-old court order to give her electroshock treatment against her will
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, a book chronicling her experiences with ECT
Thomas Eagleton, US senator and vice presidential candidate
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.
Roky Erickson, American singer, songwriter, harmonica player and guitarist
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 Fisher speaks at length of her experiences with ECT in her autobiography Wishful Drinking.
Janet Frame, New Zealand writer and poet
Leonard Roy Frank, is a published author, human rights activist, and self-described psychiatric survivor.
Judy Garland, Singer, dancer, actress.
Harold Gimblett, British cricketer
Julie Goodyear, English actress from Coronation Street.
Gloria Grahame Actress. (1964)
Peter Green, English blues guitarist, founding member of Fleetwood Mac.
David Helfgott, Australian pianist
Ernest Hemingway, American Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, Nobel Laureate, short-story writer, and journalist
Gloria Hemingway, daughter of Ernest Hemingway
Marya Hornbacher, American writer
Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-American classical pianist
Vivien Leigh, English actress and second wife of Laurence Olivier
Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, television and film personality
Carmen Miranda, Luso-Brazilian Singer, dancer, actress
Michael Moriarty, American actor
Robbie Muir, Australian rules football player - when aged seven.
Sherwin B. Nuland, American surgeon and writer
Andrew Loog Oldham, manager of The Rolling Stones
Karolina Olsson, the "Sleeping Beauty of Oknö"
Sam Phillips, founder, Sun Records, discoverer of Elvis Presley
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
Emil Post, American mathematician, died in 1954 of a heart attack following electroshock treatment for depression; he was 57.
Bud Powell, American jazz musician
Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter
Marilyn Rice, anti-electroconvulsive therapy activist
Paul Robeson, American bass singer and actor
Yves Saint-Laurent, French fashion designer
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
Edie Sedgwick, American socialite and Warhol superstar
William Styron, American author
Gene Tierney, American actress
Townes van Zandt, American country singer-songwriter
David Foster Wallace, American writer
Mike Wallace, American journalist
Tammy Wynette, American country singer and composer, who described having a series of shock treatments for depression in her biography.
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