Artists abused and destroyed by Psychiatry

Vivien Leigh: Vivien Leigh was placed in Netheren psychiatric hospital in England. There she was packed in ice as part of her “treatment” and fed raw eggs from time to time. She said of her experience, “I thought I was in an insane asylum. I thought I had to scream so that someone would help get me out.” She was subjected to repeated electroshocks. It was the first of many terrors, and one that would affect her permanently.

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Marilyn Monroe: Monroe saw New York Freudian psychiatrist Dr. Marianne Kris. Kris saw Monroe five times a week and ultimately provided her with powerful barbiturates that she abused until her death. Kris later tricked the actress into signing herself into a psychiatric ward, telling her it was for a physical workup and rest. Monroe was locked in a padded cell for two days, where she pounded the door until her fists were raw and bleeding.

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Judy Garland: Under a psychiatrist’s orders, she began the first of many stays in psychiatric hospitals. Then in 1949, not yet 27 years old, she was subjected to the violence and degradation of electroshock. And as psychiatric treatment continued to fail her totally, she was given hypnosis to “calm her nerves and help her lose weight.”

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