Simone D.

{{Short description|American psychiatric patient}} '''Simone D.''' is a pseudonym for a psychiatric patient in the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in New York City,<ref>{{cite book|title=The Madness Of Women: Myth and Experience|last=Ussher|first=Jane M.|publisher=Routledge|year=2011|isbn=9781136656323|page=85|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSWpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA85}}</ref> who in 2007 won a court ruling which set aside a two-year-old court order to give her electroshock treatment against her will.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-abuse/electroshock/simone-d|title=MindFreedom, article title Another victory against forced electroshock. Simone D. wins!|work=MFIPortal|date=7 July 2007 |accessdate=6 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.narpa.org/SimoneDRelease7_10_07.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-01-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212212424/http://www.narpa.org/SimoneDRelease7_10_07.pdf |archivedate=2015-02-12 }}</ref> She spoke Spanish, but she was not transferred to a unit/facility that had Spanish-speaking clinicians.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-abuse/electroshock/simone-d/200707|title=Attorney loses battle to stop Simone D forced electroshock|work=MFIPortal|date=7 July 2007 }}</ref> Her attorneys were Dennis Feld and Kim Darrow.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-abuse/electroshock/simone-d|title=MindFreedom, article title Another victory against forced electroshock. Simone D. wins!|work=MFIPortal|date=7 July 2007 |accessdate=6 October 2014}}</ref>

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