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.[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]
- 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]
References[edit]
- ^ Kneeland, Timothy W.; Warren, Carol A. B. (20 October 2017). Pushbutton Psychiatry: A History of Electroshock in America. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780275968151 – via Google Books.
- ^ Doctors of Deception: What They Don't Want You to Know about Shock Treatment. Linda Andre. 2009. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0813544410
- ^ Barber, Stephen (February 2005). The Screaming Body: Antonin Artaud – Film Projects, Drawings and Sound Recordings. Creation Books. ISBN 978-1-84068-091-1.
- ^ Ward, Nigel (1999). "Twelve of the Fifty-One Shocks of Antonin Artaud". New Theatre Quarterly. 15 (2): 123–130. doi:10.1017/S0266464X00012811. S2CID 194085175.
- ^ Abrams, Richard (2002). Electroconvulsive Therapy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514820-6.
- ^ "Lawrence Journal-World - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ^ Altman, Lawrence K. (5 November 1982). "CITY'S ELECTROSHOCK VOTE AFFECTING TREATMENT". The New York Times.
- ^ Purnell, Sonia (2015). Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill. Viking. ISBN 978-0-525-42977-7.
- ^ Coelho, Paulo (2006). The Zahir. HarperCollinsPublishers. ISBN 0-00-722085-5.
- ^ Ussher, Jane M. (2011). The Madness Of Women: Myth and Experience. Routledge. p. 85. ISBN 9781136656323.
- ^ "MindFreedom, article title Another victory against forced electroshock. Simone D. wins!". MFIPortal. 2007-07-07. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-12. Retrieved 2015-06-16.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Dukakis, Kitty; Tye, Larry (September 2006). Shock: The Healing Power of Electroconvulsive Therapy. Avery. ISBN 978-1-58333-265-8.
- ^ Dukakis, K; Tye, L (2006). "I Feel Good, I Feel Alive". Newsweek. 18 (12): 62–63. PMID 17037902.
- ^ Pilkington, Ed (March 29, 2008). "The White House losers". The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-03-29.
- ^ "Eduard Einstein: The tragic life of Albert Einstein’s forgotten son" Author Genefe Navilon.
- ^ Smyers, Darryl (March 1, 2007). "Dallas - Music - Roky Erickson". DallasObserver.com. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
- ^ Fisher, Carrie (2008). Wishful Drinking. Simon & Schuster. p. 163. ISBN 978-1-4391-0225-1.
- ^ Frame, J. An Angel at My Table, London, Virago, 2008 (autobiography)
- ^ "The Telegraph - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ^ Cole, Kermit (15 May 2013). "Leonard Roy Frank: Activist and Pioneer - Mad In America".
- ^ Foot, David (June 9, 2003). "Tale of a tormented genius". ESPN CricInfo - Cricket News. Retrieved 2007-06-12.
- ^ "An end to Julie Goodyear's bad years?". Daily Express Online. 17 August 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
- ^ Freedland, Jan; Fitzgerald, John (February 7, 2009). "Peter Green Biography". Fmlegacy.com. Archived from the original on April 28, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
- ^ Cole, Tom (30 December 2013). "Another Fleetwood Mac Album That's 'Worth A Damn'". NPR.
- ^ Dutton, Denis. "David Helfgott: Beethoven on Prozac". Philosophy and Literature 21 (1997): 340–345. Johns Hopkins University Press (archived at Denisdutton.com). Retrieved 2009-10-17.
- ^ "Ernest Hemingway (American writer) - Britannica Online Encyclopedia". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
- ^ Hirshbein L, Sarvananda S (2008). "History, power, and electricity: American popular magazine accounts of electroconvulsive therapy, 1940-2005" (PDF). J Hist Behav Sci. 44 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1002/jhbs.20283. PMID 18196545.
- ^ Hornbacher, Marya. Madness: A Bipolar Life, New York, 2008 (autobiography)
- ^ Plaskin, Glenn (1983). Biography of Vladimir Horowitz Quill ISBN 0-688-02656-7 Pages 338, 387, 389
- ^ Capua, Michelangelo (2003). Vivien Leigh: A Biography. McFarland. pp. 157, 169. ISBN 0-7864-1497-9.
- ^ Levant, Oscar (1965). Memoirs of an Amnesiac. Bantam Books. p. 4. ISBN 1-127-65584-1.
- ^ Zacharias, Yvonne (July 20, 2005). "Moriarty tames his demons". The Vancouver Sun (at MMuuuhp). Archived from the original on December 20, 2008. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
{{cite web}}: External link in|publisher= - ^ Jackson, Russell (23 August 2020). "The persecution of Robert Muir is the story football doesn't want to hear". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
I had shock treatment when I was about seven years old
- ^ Nuland, Sherwin (2001) My history of electroshock therapy, TED lecture (video).
- ^ Guralnick, Peter (2015). Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' roll. Little, Brown & Co. ISBN 978-0-316-04274-1.
- ^ "Sylvia Plath Homepage". Sylviaplath.de. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
- ^ Slovenko, Ralph (3 March 2009). Psychiatry in Law / Law in Psychiatry, Second Edition. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781135846046 – via Google Books.
- ^ Baaz, Matthias, ed. (2011). Kurt Gödel and the Foundations of Mathematics: Horizons of Truth (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139498432.
- ^ Urquhart (2008), p. 430.
- ^ Leland, John (2004). Hip, the history. HarperCollins. p. 123. ISBN 0-06-052817-6.
- ^ McNeil, Legs; McCain, Gillian, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, Grove Press (1996). Cf. pp.3–4
- ^ Dobuzinskis, Alex (November 22, 2006). "Can electroshock therapy make you a better singer?". Valley News Blog. Archived from the original on 2007-10-24.
- ^ "Shock and Disbelief". The Atlantic. 2015-05-19. Retrieved 2015-06-16.
- ^ B., Duberman, Martin (1996) [1989]. Paul Robeson. New York: New Press. ISBN 156584288X. OCLC 31608914.
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- ^ Stein, Jean; Plimpton, George (1994). Edie: American Girl. Grove Press. pp. 390, 398. ISBN 0-8021-3410-6.
- ^ "Shock Treatment". cbsnews.com. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
- ^ Shorter, Edward; Healy, David (2007). Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness. Rutgers University Press. p. 156. ISBN 978-0-8135-4169-3.
- ^ Biographical film
- ^ Weber, Bruce (September 14, 2008). "David Foster Wallace, Influential Writer, dies at 46". The New York Times.
- ^ Bor, Jonathan. "Woman details shock cure of depression". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved 2019-12-30.