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]
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.
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]
Tammy Wynette, American country singer and composer, who described having a series of shock treatments for depression in her biography.[citation needed]
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^Shorter, Edward; Healy, David (2007). Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness. Rutgers University Press. p. 156. ISBN978-0-8135-4169-3.