Ted Chabasinski
Male, Person
1937 –
Who is Ted Chabasinski?
Ted Chabasinski is an American psychiatric survivor, human rights activist and attorney who lives in Berkeley, California. At the age of six, he was taken from his foster family's home and committed to a New York psychiatric facility. Diagnosed with childhood schizophrenia, he underwent intensive electroshock therapy and remained an inmate in a state psychiatric hospital until the age of seventeen. He subsequently trained as a lawyer and became active in the psychiatric survivors movement. In 1982, he led a successful campaign seeking to ban the use of electroshock in Berkeley, California.
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- Born
- Mar 20, 1937
United States of America - Spouses
- Judi Chamberlin
( - 1985)
- Judi Chamberlin
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on July 23, 2013
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