Doctors of Deception

Linda Andre, Doctors of Deception: What They Don't Want You to Know about Shock

Rutgers University Press ISBN: 978-0-8135-4441-0 Pages: 336 pages Publication Date: February 2009

Linda Andre is a writer, activist, and the director of the Committee for Truth in Psychiatry. Since receiving ECT in the early 1980s, she has been an advocate for the human and civil rights of psychiatrically labeled people, particularly the right to truthful informed consent. She has been interviewed by numerous publications and media such as 20/20, The New York Times, and the Washington Post.

Links:

Rutgers University Press web page - with book description, reviews, and events]

Review [in the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine by Stefan P. Kruszewski, M.D]

ECT.org

The Electroshock Quotationary - compiled and edited by Leonard Roy Frank

Shocked!

Federal Register notice on ECT devices and opportunity for public comment