Linda Andre

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Linda Andre is an American psychiatric survivor activist and writer, living in New York City, who is the director of the Committee for Truth in Psychiatry (CTIP), an organization founded by Marilyn Rice in 1984 to encourage the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) machines.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Anti-ECT activism

Since receiving ECT in the early 1980s at age 25, Andre has been writing and doing research to help other ECT survivors cope with their cognitive and memory losses, and inform the general public about the risks of ECT. Linda has been interviewed by 20/20, The Atlantic, the New York Times^[4] and the Washington Post.^[5]

Interviewed by the Los Angeles Times in 2003, Linda commented on a British study that found that when patients helped design or conduct ECT surveys, only one third of the respondents claimed to find ECT helpful, but when doctors designed and conducted the surveys, three-fourths claimed to find ECT beneficial. "This is what happens when you ask patients what they think," said patient turned prominent ECT critic Linda Andre,..."you get a completely different story from the one psychiatrists are telling."^[6]

In 2009 her book Doctors of Deception: What they don't want you to know about shock treatment was published.Reviewing this work, James Woods, of the University of Edinburgh and writing in the journal the Social History of Medicine commented:

“	over the course of its 17 often meticulously researched chapters, Andre provides a useful contrast to the claims made in Edward Shorter and David Healy's recent paean to ECT and the men who were instrumental in its development (Edward Shorter and David Healy, Shock Therapy, 2007), and offers a potentially devastating critique of both ECT and the modern American psychiatric profession.	”
—James Woods, Social History of Medicine, 2010]

Published works

Andre, Linda (2001). "Memory loss: from polarization to reconciliation". Journal of ECT 17 (3): 228–29.
Andre, Linda (2005). "ECT then and now". Psychiatric Services 56 (4): 490–91.
Andre, Linda (2009). Doctors of Deception: What They Don't Want You to Know About Shock Treatment. New York.

References

↑ Testimony of Linda Andre before the New York State Assembly, May 18, 2001
↑ Pushbutton Psychiatry, by Timothy W. Kneeland and Carol A. B. Warren, 2002
↑ Wood, J. (15 February 2010). "Linda Andre, Doctors of Deception: What They Don't Want You to Know About Shock Treatment". Social History of Medicine 23 (1): 218–219. doi:10.1093/shm/hkp135.
↑ New York Times, 7/19/1993
↑ 'Go See Linda Andre!' March 27, 2009, The Trouble with Spikol
↑ 'Shock Therapy and the Brain' Los Angeles Times, November 11, 2003

External links

Madness Radio, May 11, 2009, 'Electroshock Deceptions Linda Andre'

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Linda Andre

Anti-ECT activism

Published works

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