Kitty Dukakis

Challenging long-standing beliefs about ECT, or electroconvulsive therapy, the wife of former Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis describes how the technique helped her to overcome her more than twenty-year struggle with depression, compares ECT to anti-depressants and psychotherapy, and shares practical guidelines for pursuing ECT as an option.

In Now You Know, Kitty Dukakis speaks her mind with the same uncompromising courage and candor that characterized her appearances during the 1988 presidential campaign. She writes unflinchingly about her childhood and the realities of political life, and reveals her ongoing struggle to overcome her problem of depression and her addiction to alcohol and pills. This intimate look into the private adversities of a public person will strike a note of instant recognition in countless readers.