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.
 * Louis Althusser, French marxist philosopher
 * Antonin Artaud, French poet and playwright
 * Dick Cavett, American television talk show host
 * Ted Chabasinski, American attorney, activist, and self-described psychiatric survivor who received ECT at six years of age.
 * Clementine Churchill, wife of Sir Winston Churchill
 * Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist
 * Simone D., a pseudonym for a psychiatric patient in the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in New York, who in 2007 won a court ruling which set aside a two-year-old court order to give her electroshock treatment against her will
 * 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, a book chronicling her experiences with ECT
 * Thomas Eagleton, US senator and vice presidential candidate
 * 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.
 * Roky Erickson, American singer, songwriter, harmonica player and guitarist
 * 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 Fisher speaks at length of her experiences with ECT in her autobiography Wishful Drinking.
 * Janet Frame, New Zealand writer and poet
 * Leonard Roy Frank, is a published author, human rights activist, and self-described psychiatric survivor.
 * Judy Garland, Singer, dancer, actress.
 * Harold Gimblett, British cricketer
 * Julie Goodyear, English actress from Coronation Street.
 * Gloria Grahame Actress. (1964)
 * Peter Green, English blues guitarist, founding member of Fleetwood Mac.
 * David Helfgott, Australian pianist
 * Ernest Hemingway, American Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, Nobel Laureate, short-story writer, and journalist
 * Gloria Hemingway, daughter of Ernest Hemingway
 * Marya Hornbacher, American writer
 * Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-American classical pianist
 * Vivien Leigh, English actress and second wife of Laurence Olivier
 * Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, television and film personality
 * Carmen Miranda, Luso-Brazilian Singer, dancer, actress
 * Michael Moriarty, American actor
 * Robbie Muir, Australian rules football player - when aged seven.
 * Sherwin B. Nuland, American surgeon and writer
 * Andrew Loog Oldham, manager of The Rolling Stones
 * Karolina Olsson, the "Sleeping Beauty of Oknö"
 * Sam Phillips, founder, Sun Records, discoverer of Elvis Presley
 * 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
 * Emil Post, American mathematician, died in 1954 of a heart attack following electroshock treatment for depression; he was 57.
 * Bud Powell, American jazz musician
 * Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter
 * Marilyn Rice, anti-electroconvulsive therapy activist
 * Paul Robeson, American bass singer and actor
 * Yves Saint-Laurent, French fashion designer
 * 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
 * Edie Sedgwick, American socialite and Warhol superstar
 * William Styron, American author
 * Gene Tierney, American actress
 * Townes van Zandt, American country singer-songwriter
 * David Foster Wallace, American writer
 * Mike Wallace, American journalist
 * Tammy Wynette, American country singer and composer, who described having a series of shock treatments for depression in her biography.