Marilyn Rice (died 1992) was an anti-electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) activist.[1] She had been a bureaucrat with the Department of Commerce in the 1960s.[2] In 1974 Berton Roueché published an article about her in the New Yorker titled "As Empty as Eve," naming her "Natalie Parker", and depicting her experience with ECT as erasing her memory.[1] Rice had received ECT to treat severe depression.[1] Rice filed the first lawsuit for ECT amnesia, but she did not win her case.[3][4]
Rice founded the Committee for Truth in Psychiatry (CTIP) in 1984 to encourage the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate ECT machines.[5]
Linda Andre wrote in Doctors of Deception, "If Marilyn Rice was the Queen of Shock, Leonard Roy Frank was the King."[6]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Shock and Disbelief". The Atlantic. 2015-05-19. Retrieved 2015-06-16.
- ^ Timothy W Kneeland; Carol A.B. Warren (15 March 2012). PUSHBUTTON PSYCHIATRY: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF ELECTRIC SHOCK THERAPY IN AMERICA, UPDATED PAPERBACK EDITION. Left Coast Press. pp. 70–. ISBN 978-1-61132-592-8.
- ^ Peter Schrag (1 January 1978). Mind control. Aware Journalism. pp. 294–. ISBN 978-0-394-40759-3.
- ^ "ECT verdict awards dollar judgment". Peoplewho.org. Retrieved 2015-06-16.
- ^ Timothy W. Kneeland; Carol A. B. Warren (1 January 2002). Pushbutton Psychiatry: A History of Electroshock in America. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 70–. ISBN 978-0-275-96815-1.
- ^ Doctors of Deception by Linda Andre, Rutgers University Press, 2009