NEWS: Leonard Roy Frank on MindFreedom News Hour Live Free Internet Radio

Sun Aug 6 21:40:53 CDT 2006

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 at mindfreedom.org. Your comments and questions may be  
read live during the show.

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Be part of a nonviolent revolution in mental health! Listen to the  
MindFreedom News Hour every week, usually live, at Tuesday, 1 pm  
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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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involving MFI in Utne, Philadelphia Inquirer, Psychiatric Services,  
Wall St. Journal and more here:

http://www.intenex.net/pipermail/mindfreedom-news/

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