Leonard Roy Frank
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Leonard Roy Frank is an American human rights activist, electroconvulsive therapy
(ECT) survivor and writer from New York
. Since 1959 he has lived in San Francisco, where he managed an art gallery before he began collecting great quotations.(It was Leonard Roy Frank who discovered notable artist G. Mark Mulleian in 1969 and displayed his work at the Frank gallery.)
Leonard was a graduate of the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania
. He then served in the US Army and later, sold real estate. In 1962 in San Francisco, Leonard was committed to a psychiatric hospital for being 'paranoid schizophrenic' and given insulin shock treatments and dozens of ECT treatments.
By 1972 Leonard was staff at Madness Network News, and in December 1973 he and Wade Hudson founded Network Against Psychiatric Assault, (NAPA), a patients' advocacy group.
Of ECT, Mr. Frank has written:
"Over the last thirty-five years I have researched the various shock procedures, particularly electroshock or ECT, have spoken with hundreds of ECT survivors, and have corresponded with many others.
From all these sources and my own experience, I have concluded that ECT is a brutal, dehumanizing, memory-destroying, intelligence lowering, brain-damaging, brainwashing, life-threatening technique."
Due to his years of anti-ECT testimony and activism, Linda Andre
wrote of Leonard in "Doctors of Deception", "If Marilyn Rice was the Queen of Shock, Leonard Roy Frank was the King."
A published author, Leonard has compiled numerous books of great quotes and passages, as well as writing about his own experiences.
Electroconvulsive therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy , formerly known as electroshock, is a psychiatric treatment in which seizures are electrically induced in anesthetized patients for therapeutic effect. Its mode of action is unknown...
(ECT) survivor and writer from New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. Since 1959 he has lived in San Francisco, where he managed an art gallery before he began collecting great quotations.(It was Leonard Roy Frank who discovered notable artist G. Mark Mulleian in 1969 and displayed his work at the Frank gallery.)
Leonard was a graduate of the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
. He then served in the US Army and later, sold real estate. In 1962 in San Francisco, Leonard was committed to a psychiatric hospital for being 'paranoid schizophrenic' and given insulin shock treatments and dozens of ECT treatments.
By 1972 Leonard was staff at Madness Network News, and in December 1973 he and Wade Hudson founded Network Against Psychiatric Assault, (NAPA), a patients' advocacy group.
Of ECT, Mr. Frank has written:
"Over the last thirty-five years I have researched the various shock procedures, particularly electroshock or ECT, have spoken with hundreds of ECT survivors, and have corresponded with many others.
From all these sources and my own experience, I have concluded that ECT is a brutal, dehumanizing, memory-destroying, intelligence lowering, brain-damaging, brainwashing, life-threatening technique."
Due to his years of anti-ECT testimony and activism, Linda Andre
Linda Andre
Linda Andre is an American psychiatric survivor activist and writer, living in New York City, who is the director of the Committee for Truth in Psychiatry , an organization founded by Marilyn Rice in 1984 to encourage the U.S...
wrote of Leonard in "Doctors of Deception", "If Marilyn Rice was the Queen of Shock, Leonard Roy Frank was the King."
A published author, Leonard has compiled numerous books of great quotes and passages, as well as writing about his own experiences.
Published works
- Random House Webster's Quotationary Random HouseRandom HouseRandom House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...
(1998) ISBN 0-679-44850-0
- Random House Webster's Wit and Humor Quotationary (2003) Random HouseRandom HouseRandom House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...
ISBN 0-375-70931-2
- The History of Shock Treatment (1978)
- The Electroshock Quotationary
- Influencing Minds: A Reader in Quotations (1994) Feral HouseFeral HouseFeral House is a book publisher owned and operated by Adam Parfrey. The publisher itself describes the books it sells as "pure information", and says the topics of the books are "forbidden"....
ISBN 978-0-922915-25-5
- Electroshock: The Case Against (2005) (with Robert F. Morgan, Peter BregginPeter BregginPeter Roger Breggin is an American psychiatrist and critic of biological psychiatry and psychiatric medication. In his books, he advocates replacing psychiatry's use of drugs and electroconvulsive therapy with humanistic approaches, such as psychotherapy, education, and broader human...
, John Friedberg, Berton RouecheBerton RouechéBerton Roueché was a medical writer who wrote for The New Yorker magazine for almost fifty years. He also wrote twenty books including Eleven Blue Men , The Incurable Wound , Feral , and The Medical Detectives...
, Bertram Karon) ISBN 0-1885-679-025
- Wit: The Greatest Things Ever Said (2009) Random House
- Inspiration: The Greatest Things Ever Said (2009) Random House
- Freedom: Quotes and Passages from the World's Greatest Freethinkers (2003)
- Love Quotes: 300 Sayings and Poems
See also
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- Electroconvulsive therapyElectroconvulsive therapyElectroconvulsive therapy , formerly known as electroshock, is a psychiatric treatment in which seizures are electrically induced in anesthetized patients for therapeutic effect. Its mode of action is unknown...
- Elizabeth PackardElizabeth PackardElizabeth Parsons Ware Packard was an advocate for the rights of women and people accused of insanity.-Life:...
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- Judi ChamberlinJudi ChamberlinJudi Chamberlin was an American activist, leader, organizer, public speaker and educator in the psychiatric survivors movement. Her political activism followed her involuntary confinement in a psychiatric facility in the 1960s...
- Kate MillettKate MillettKate Millett is an American lesbian feminist writer and activist. A seminal influence on second-wave feminism, Millet is best known for her 1970 book Sexual Politics.-Career:...
- Linda AndreLinda AndreLinda Andre is an American psychiatric survivor activist and writer, living in New York City, who is the director of the Committee for Truth in Psychiatry , an organization founded by Marilyn Rice in 1984 to encourage the U.S...
- List of psychiatric consumer/survivor/ex-patient related topics
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- MindFreedom InternationalMindFreedom InternationalMindFreedom International is an international coalition of over one hundred grassroots groups and thousands of individual members from fourteen nations. It was founded in 1990 to advocate against forced medication, medical restraints, and involuntary electroconvulsive therapy. Its stated mission is...
- National Empowerment CenterNational Empowerment CenterThe National Empowerment Center is an advocacy and peer-support organization in the United States that promotes an empowerment-based recovery model of mental disorder. It is run by consumers/survivors/ex-patients in recovery....
- Psychiatric survivors movementPsychiatric survivors movementThe psychiatric survivors movement is a diverse association of individuals who are either currently clients of mental health services , or who consider themselves survivors of interventions by psychiatry, or who identify themselves as ex-patients of mental health services...
- Ted ChabasinskiTed ChabasinskiTed Chabasinski is an American psychiatric survivor, human rights activist and attorney who lives in Berkeley, California. At the age of six he was taken from his foster family's home and committed to a New York psychiatric facility...
- World Network of Users and Survivors of PsychiatryWorld Network of Users and Survivors of PsychiatryThe World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry is an international organisation representing, and led by "survivors of psychiatry". As of 2003, over 70 national organizations were members of WNUSP, based in 30 countries...
External links
- http://www.mindfreedom.org/personal-stories/frankleonardr/ Mindfreedom International-Leonard Frank