caption years_active birth_place nationality name honorific_suffix birth_date known_for residence article_title birth_name occupation
ted chabasinski 1971-present new york , u.s.a. american ted chabasinski juris doctor 20 march 1937 psychiatric survivor activist berkeley , california ted chabasinski
 theodore chabasinski former directing attorney for mental health consumer concerns
ted chabasinski

ted chabasinski -lrb- born march 20 , 1937 -rrb- 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 -lrb- now termed electroconvulsive therapy or ect -rrb- 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 .
