Marilyn Rice (died 1992) was an anti-

electroconvulsive therapy Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a psychiatry, psychiatric treatment where a generalized seizure (without muscular convulsions) is electrically induced to manage refractory mental disorders.Rudorfer, MV, Henry, ME, Sackeim, HA (2003)"Electroco ...

(ECT) activist. She had been a bureaucrat with the Department of Commerce in the 1960s. In 1974

Berton Roueché Clarence Berton Roueché, Jr. ( ; April 16, 1910 – April 28, 1994) was an American medical writer who wrote for ''The New Yorker'' magazine for almost fifty years. He also wrote twenty books, including '' Eleven Blue Men'' (1954), ''The Incur ...

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. Rice had received ECT to treat severe depression. Rice filed the first lawsuit for ECT amnesia, but she did not win her case. Rice founded the

Committee for Truth in Psychiatry A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly. A committee is not itself considered to be a form of assembly. Usually, the assembly sends matters into a committee as a way to explore them more ...

(CTIP) in 1984 to encourage the

U.S. Food and Drug Administration The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the control and supervision of food s ...

(FDA) to regulate ECT machines.

Linda Andre 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 ...

wrote in ''Doctors of Deception'', "If Marilyn Rice was the Queen of Shock,

Leonard Roy Frank Leonard Roy Frank (July 15, 1932 – January 15, 2015,) was an American human rights activist, psychiatric survivor, editor, writer, aphorist, and lecturer. Frank lived in San Francisco from 1959 until his death, where he managed an art gallery b ...

was the King."''Doctors of Deception'' by

, Rutgers University Press, 2009

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