List of people who have undergone electroconvulsive therapy

• Linda Andre, American author, psychiatric survivor activist, director of the Committee for Truth in Psychiatry
• Antonin Artaud, French poet and playwright^[1]
• Richard Brautigan, counter-culture figure, poet and novelist
• Beverley Callard, English television actress^[2]
• Dick Cavett, American television talk show host^[3]
• Ted Chabasinski, American attorney and psychiatric survivor activist who first received ECT at six years of age when treated by the noted and now late child psychiatrist Lauretta Bender
• Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist^[4]
• Kitty Dukakis, wife of former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis and author of Shock,^[5] a book chronicling her experiences with ECT^[6]
• Thomas Eagleton, US senator and vice presidential candidate^[7]
• Roky Erickson, American singer, songwriter, harmonica player and guitarist^[8]
• Carrie Fisher, American actress and novelist^[9] Fisher speaks at length of her experiences with ECT in her autobiography Wishful Drinking.
• Janet Frame, New Zealand writer and poet^[10]
• Judy Garland, American actress^[11]
• Harold Gimblett, British cricketer^[12]
• Peter Green, English blues guitarist, founding member of Fleetwood Mac.^[13]
• David Helfgott, Australian pianist^[14]
• Ernest Hemingway, American Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Nobel Laureate, short-story writer, and journalist^[15]
• Marya Hornbacher, American writer^[16]
• Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-American classical pianist^[17]
• Vivien Leigh, English actress and second wife of Laurence Olivier^[18]
• Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, television and film personality^[19]
• Michael Moriarty, American actor^[20]
• Sherwin B. Nuland, American surgeon and writer^[21]
• Robert M. Pirsig, American author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.^[22]
• Sylvia Plath, American writer and poet^[23]
• Bud Powell, American jazz musician^[24]
• Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter^[25]
• Yves Saint-Laurent, French fashion designer^[26]
• Edie Sedgwick, American socialite and Warhol Superstar^[27]
• Gene Tierney, American actress^[28]
• Tammy Wynette, American country music singer
• David Foster Wallace, American writer ^[29]
• Townes van Zandt, American country singer-songwriter^[30]

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