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Kitty Dukakis obituary notes advocacy for electroconvulsive therapy
Kitty Dukakis, wife of former Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis, died at 88 in Brookline. The activist, dancer and social worker battled amphetamine dependency and later embraced electroconvulsive therapy, crediting it with saving her life. The couple promoted ECT and wrote about recovery, while Dukakis also supported refugees and humanitarian causes.
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