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These organizations have a proven record of supporting ECT survivors and of working for psychiatric reform. Many ECT survivors and their families have found this information useful.

  • LifeAfterShock.com Dedicated to improving the lives of people harmed by electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). We do this through advocacy, education, and research.
  • PsychRights.org – The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights) is a non-profit, public interest law firm whose mission is to mount a strategic legal campaign against forced psychiatric drugging and electroshock.
  • ISEPP.org – The International Society for Ethical Psychology & Psychiatry.
  • CCHR.org – The Citizens Commission on Human Rights is a watchdog investigating & exposing psychiatric human rights violation.
  • PeterBreggin.com  Peter R. Breggin, MD, has been called “The Conscience of Psychiatry” for his many decades of successful efforts to reform the mental health field.  Dr Breggin’s ECT Resources Center contains more than 125 scientific articles.
  • MindFreedom.org – For nearly three decades, MindFreedom International has been engaging in successful advocacy, public education, mutual support, peaceful protests, lobbying, and organizing without ever giving up our dream of facilitating mental and emotional wellness for all people.
  • MadInAmerica.com – Science, Psychiatry and Community.
  • ICBE- International Campaign to Ban Electroshock – The ICBE is working together with other people and groups around the world to help ban ECT universally.