Julie Roy (activist)

Julie Roy
Born1938 (age 85–86)
Port Huron, Michigan

Julie Ellen Roy[1] (born c. 1938) is an American mental health activist. She gained notoriety for being the first woman to successfully sue her psychiatrist for coercing her into sex for allegedly therapeutic reasons.[2]

  1. ^ Freeman, Lucy; Roy, Julie (1976). Betrayal. Briarcliff Manor, New York: Stein and Day. ISBN 0-8128-1889-X.
  2. ^ Commire, Anne; Klezmer, Deborah, eds. (2007). Dictionary of Women Worldwide. Waterford, Connecticut: Yorkin Publications. ISBN 978-0-7876-7585-1.