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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 Administration (FDA) to regulate ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) machines.〔() Testimony of Linda Andre before the New York State Assembly, May 18, 2001〕〔() Pushbutton Psychiatry, by Timothy W. Kneeland and Carol A. B. Warren, 2002〕
== Anti-ECT activism==
Since receiving ECT in the early 1980s at age 25, Andre has been writing and doing research to help other ECT survivors cope with their cognitive and memory losses, and inform the general public about the risks of ECT. Linda has been interviewed by ''20/20'', ''The Atlantic'', the ''New York Times''〔() New York Times, 7/19/1993〕 and the Washington Post.〔() 'Go See Linda Andre!' March 27, 2009, The Trouble with Spikol〕
Interviewed by the Los Angeles Times in 2003, Linda commented on a British study that found that when patients helped design or conduct ECT surveys, only one third of the respondents claimed to find ECT helpful, but when doctors designed and conducted the surveys, three-fourths claimed to find ECT beneficial. "This is what happens when you ask patients what they think," said patient turned prominent ECT critic Linda Andre,..."you get a completely different story from the one psychiatrists are telling."〔()'Shock Therapy and the Brain' Los Angeles Times, November 11, 2003〕
In 2009 her book ''Doctors of Deception: What they don't want you to know about shock treatment'' was published. Reviewing this work, James Woods, of the University of Edinburgh and writing in the journal the ''Social History of Medicine'' commented:
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