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]
• Louis Althusser, French marxist philosopher^{[citation needed]}
• Antonin Artaud, French poet and playwright^[3][4]
• 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]
• 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.
• Janet Frame, New Zealand writer and poet^[19]
• Leonard Roy Frank, is a published author, human rights activist, and self-described psychiatric survivor.^[20][21]
• Judy Garland, Singer, dancer, actress.
• Harold Gimblett, British cricketer^[22]
• Julie Goodyear, English actress from Coronation Street.^[23]
• Gloria Grahame Actress. (1964)
• Peter Green, English blues guitarist, founding member of Fleetwood Mac.^[24][25]
• David Helfgott, Australian pianist^[26]
• Ernest Hemingway, American Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, Nobel Laureate, short-story writer, and journalist^[27][28]
• Gloria Hemingway, daughter of Ernest Hemingway
• Marya Hornbacher, American writer^[29]
• Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-American classical pianist^[30]
• Vivien Leigh, English actress and second wife of Laurence Olivier^[31]
• Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, television and film personality^[32]
• Carmen Miranda, Luso-Brazilian Singer, dancer, actress^{[citation needed]}
• Michael Moriarty, American actor^[33]
• Robbie Muir, Australian rules football player - when aged seven.^[34]
• Sherwin B. Nuland, American surgeon and writer^[35]
• Andrew Loog Oldham, manager of The Rolling Stones^{[citation needed]}
• Karolina Olsson, the "Sleeping Beauty of Oknö"^{[citation needed]}
• Sam Phillips, founder, Sun Records, discoverer of Elvis Presley ^[36]
• 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^[37][38]
• Emil Post, American mathematician, died in 1954 of a heart attack following electroshock treatment for depression;^[39][40] he was 57.
• Bud Powell, American jazz musician^[41]
• Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter ^[42][43]
• Marilyn Rice, anti-electroconvulsive therapy activist^[44]
• Paul Robeson, American bass singer and actor^[45]
• Yves Saint-Laurent, French fashion designer^[46]
• 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]
• Edie Sedgwick, American socialite and Warhol superstar^[48]
• William Styron, American author^[49]
• Gene Tierney, American actress^[50]
• Townes van Zandt, American country singer-songwriter^[51]
• David Foster Wallace, American writer ^[52]
• Mike Wallace, American journalist^[53]
• Tammy Wynette, American country singer and composer, who described having a series of shock treatments for depression in her biography.^{[citation needed]}