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.

References

1. Ted Chabasinski
2. Erotomania
3. Leonard Roy Frank
4. Management of depression
5. History of psychosurgery in the United Kingdom
6. William Reid (psychiatrist)
7. 1972 United States presidential election
8. Lunatic asylum
9. List of unsuccessful major party candidates for President of the United States
10. List of unsuccessful major party candidates for Vice President of the United States
11. List of Gotham (TV series) characters
12. Timeline of disability rights outside the United States
13. History of psychosurgery