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]
• Antonin Artaud, French poet and playwright[3][4]
• Frances Farmer, American film actress, who described standing in line with other girls at mental hospital waiting for shock treatments in the 1940s.
• Tammy Wynette, American country singer and composer, who described having a series of shock treatments for depression in her biography.
• 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]
• Roky Erickson, American singer, songwriter, harmonica player and guitarist[16]
• Carrie Fisher, American actress and novelist[17] Fisher speaks at length of her experiences with ECT in her autobiography Wishful Drinking.
• Janet Frame, New Zealand writer and poet[18]
• Leonard Roy Frank, is a published author, human rights activist, and self-described psychiatric survivor.[19][20]
• Judy Garland, Singer, dancer, actress.
• Harold Gimblett, British cricketer[21]
• Julie Goodyear, English actress from Coronation Street.[22]
• Peter Green, English blues guitarist, founding member of Fleetwood Mac.[23][24]
• David Helfgott, Australian pianist[25]
• Ernest Hemingway, American Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, Nobel Laureate, short-story writer, and journalist[26][27]
• Gregory Hemingway, son of Ernest Hemingway
• Marya Hornbacher, American writer[28]
• Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-American classical pianist[29]
• Vivien Leigh, English actress and second wife of Laurence Olivier[30]
• Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, television and film personality[31]
• Karolina Olsson, the "Sleeping Beauty of Oknö"
• Carmen Miranda, Luso-Brazilian Singer, dancer, actress.
• Michael Moriarty, American actor[32]
• Robbie Muir, Australian rules football player - when aged seven.[33]
• Sherwin B. Nuland, American surgeon and writer[34]
• Sam Phillips, founder, Sun Records, discoverer of Elvis Presley [35]
• 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[36][37]
• Emil Post, American mathematician, died in 1954 of a heart attack following electroshock treatment for depression;[38][39] he was 57.
• Bud Powell, American jazz musician[40]
• Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter [41][42]
• Marilyn Rice, anti-electroconvulsive therapy activist[43]
• Paul Robeson, American bass singer and actor[44]
• Yves Saint-Laurent, French fashion designer[45]
• 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[46]
• Edie Sedgwick, American socialite and Warhol Superstar[47]
• William Styron, American author[48]
• Gene Tierney, American actress[49]
• Townes van Zandt, American country singer-songwriter[50]
• David Foster Wallace, American writer [51]
• Mike Wallace, American journalist[52]

Use of electrical apparatus. Bergonic chair for giving general electric treatment for psychological effect in psycho-neurotic cases (World War I era)