Leonard Roy Frank, author and lecturer, will speak on Sunday afternoon at Brave New Books. He is knowledgable and passionate on the subject of electroshock therapy, and other forms of psychiatric abuse. 45 minute talk followed by an hour of discussion. Please come!!!
Sunday, March 18
Leonard Roy Frank lectures on "The Psychiatric-Pharmaceutical-Electroshock
Complex"
4pm
Brave New Books, 1904 Guadalupe
In 1963 psychiatrists labeled Leonard Roy Frank a "paranoid schizophrenic"
and forced him to undergo 50 insulin comas and 35 electroshocks. These procedures
destroyed much of his memory and knowledge, some of which he regained during the
following six years through intensive study and reading. In 1974 he co-founded the
San Francisco/Berkeley-based Network Against Psychiatric Assault, an organization of
survivors dedicated to ending all forms of psychiatric abuse, including forced
drugging, electroshock, psychosurgery, involuntary commitment (including outpatient
commitment), and restraints.
In 1978 he edited and published The History of Shock
Treatment. Feral House published his Influencing Minds: A Reader in Quotations in
1995. Three years later, he edited Random House Webster's Quotationary (20,000+
quotations in 1,000+ alphabetically arranged categories) and since then Random House
has published 7 smaller collections of his quotations. Last June he published on the
Internet The Electroshock Quotationary, 154 pages of chronologically-arranged
quotations about ECT by survivors, opponents and proponents. The book may be
downloaded free of charge at the CAEST website (The Coalition for the Abolition of
Electroshock in Texas)
http://www.endofshock.com/102C_ECT.PDF
more at http://www.endofshock.com
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