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NEWS: Leonard Roy Frank on MindFreedom News Hour Live Free

Internet Radio

 

 

 

 

MindFreedom News -- 8 August 2006

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Public Service Announcement:

 

MindFreedom Weekly News Hour Live Free Internet Radio.

 

Featured guest: Leonard Roy Frank -- author and electroshock

survivor activist

 

You may e-mail in questions & comments live.

 

This Tuesday, 8 August 2006 at 1 pm eastern time, 10 am pacific time

click on http://www.theprn.org, or listen to the archive later.

 

You will hear Leonard Roy Frank as a guest on the MindFreedom Weekly

News Hour Internet radio show. Leonard will be interviewed by host

David Oaks on the live free show which is part of the Progressive

Radio Network. You'll also hear the latest news and resources for a

nonviolent revolution in the mental health system.

 

Leonard is widely considered one of the central figures in the

history of resistance to psychiatric oppression, especially

electroshock.

 

Here's a very brief autobiography from Leonard:

 

" Born in Brooklyn in 1932. Univ. of Pennsylvania graduate. Real

estate salesman. Moved in 1959 to San Francisco where I soon became

interested in nonviolence, history, philosophy. What turned me around

was Gandhi's autobiography which I read at that time.

 

" Committed to a psychiatric institution in 1962 and labeled 'paranoid

schizophrenic.' Seven-plus months and 85 shock treatments later I was

released -- with a 3-year memory gap.

 

" Joined the staff of Madness Network News staff in 1972 and co-

founded the Network Against Psychiatric Assault in 1974, both in San

Francisco. Engaged in a number of civil disobedience acts during the

next 10 years in the U.S. and Canada. Edited and published _The

History of Shock Treatment_ in 1978.

 

" Between 1998 and 2003 Random House published 8 books I edited,

including the _Random House Webster's Quotationary_ (20,000 quotes in

1,000 alphabetized categories). In June of 2006 _The Electroshock

Quotationary_, an illustrated, 154-page history of psychiatry's most

controversial procedure in chronologically arranged quotations, was

published on the Internet. It can be downloaded free of charge from

the website of the Coalition for the Abolition of Electroshock in

Texas. "

 

The link to download a free copy of _The Electroshock Quotationary_ is:

 

http://www.endofshock.com/102C_ECT.PDF

 

YOU may e-mail your questions and comments before, during or after

the show at radio. Your comments and questions may be

read live during the show.

 

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Archives of the MindFreedom News Hour are now available.

 

If you miss a live show you may listen to the archive at http://

www.theprn.org. Just click on " shows " and go to MindFreedom News

Hour. Older Macs made have trouble hearing the archive, sorry...

we're a Mac office and we sympathize, we're working on fixing that.

 

Here are past shows now on the archive by DATE (the new web site does

not have name labels yet):

 

08/1/06 Guest = Matt Morrissey -- Alternatives for extreme emotional

distress.

 

07/25/06 Guest = Hugh Massengill -- Surviving trauma and psychiatric

abuse.

 

07/18/06 Guest = Al Galves, PhD -- How dissident mental health

professionals can be good allies.

 

07/11/06 Guest = Celia Brown -- Celia's story of surviving

psychiatry, promoting alternatives, and speaking out inside the

United Nations for three years as President of MindFreedom

International.

 

06/27/06 Guest = Krista Erickson -- Mad Pride! How you can organize a

Mad Pride event and join in with anchor events in four nations: Ghana

Africa, UK, Canada and USA.

 

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