From The Files of
Leonard Roy Frank

• The Journey of Transformation, by Leonard Roy Frank, Street Spirit, April, 2008.  (5 Megabytes)
• Electroshock Quotationary, June 2006
• 1985 Leonard Roy Frank exchange with Eli Wiesel -- American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting
• Electroshock Abuses, AHP Perspectives, Association for Humanistic Psychology, January 1985: 14-15
• Electroshock: Psychiatry's Cruel and Inhuman Punishment, The Tribue (Oakland), October 1, 1984.
• On Brainwashing, Mind Manipulation and Psychiatry, Street Spirit, October 2007.
• Safe from Chronic Insanity?, Oakland Tribune, March 27, 1981.
• Chapter 5, The Patient As Prisoner, in Shock Treatment Is Not Good For Your Brain, John Friedberg, M.D., editor, Glide Publications, 1976.
• Was Jesus Mad? Berkely Barb, March 31, 1972.
• Psychiatry’s Unholy Trinity--Fraud, Fear And Force: A Personal Account, by Leonard Roy Frank, appearing in Ideas on Liberty, August, 2002.
• Letter to the Capital Times, June 26, 1995.

Electroshock Articles

• "My Mind's Like Swiss Cheese:" Sukhreet tells of Electroshocks, New York Post, October 18, 1988.
• Adverse Psychological Effects of ECT, Lucy Johnstone, Journal of Mental Health, (1999) 8, 1, 69-85.
• Agents, Not Objects: Our Fights to Be, Ronald Bassman, JCLP/In Session, November 2000.
• Electroconvulsive Therapy for Major Depression in the Oldest Old: Effects of Medical Comorbidity on Post-Treatment Survivl, by David Kroessler, MD, Barry S. Fogel, MD, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 1:1 (1993)
• Commentary: Electroconvulsive Treatment, Neurology, and Psychiatry, by David Cohen, PhD, Editor, Ethical Human Sciences and Services, Vol. 3, No. 2 (2001).
• ECT: Shock, Lies and Psychiatry, by Yvonne Jones and Steve Baldwin, International Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy, June 1992.
• Electroboy: He was hooked up, switched on, blissed out, by Andy Behrman, New York Times Magazine, January 24, 1999
• Patients' Experiences of and Attitudes to Electroconvulsive Therapy, C.P.L. Greeman and R. E. Kendal, Electroconvusive Therapy Clinical and Basic Research Issues, Vol 462:341-352 (1986)
• Electroconvulsive Therapy, the Self, and Family Relations, by Carol A.B. Warren, Research in the Sociology of Health Care, Vol 7: 283-300 (1988)
• Article in Hippocrates, by Russ Rymer (1989)
• Horror Tales Emerge From Australian Hospital, The Jakarta Post, December 28, 1990.
• I Saw Him in Action, by Ernest W. Michel, The New York Times, March 6, 1985.
• Electroshock Therapy: Let's Stop Blasting the Brain, by John Friedberg, Psychology Today, August 1975
• Shock Therapy: A Media Pet, The Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) June 5, 1995
• Shock Thereapy Unsafe, Inhumane, by Ron Unger, Opinion, The Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon), April 5, 1995.
• Testimony to New York Assembly Hearing on Electroshock, John Breeding, PhD, July 18, 2001.
• The History of Electroconvulsive Therapy in the United States and Its Place in American Psychiatry: A Personal Memoir, by Zigmond M. Legensohn, Comprehensive Psychiatry, Vol 40, No. 3: 173-181 (1999).
• Understanding and Ending ECT, by Bonnie Burstow, Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1,2 (2006)

Electroshock Consent Forms

• Various Electroshock Consent Forms
• Examples of Electroshock Consent Forms

• Insulin Coma Treatment, Excerpts from the History of Shock Treatment, edited and published by Leonard Roy Frank, 1978.
• Insulin Shock Torture: A personal Account, by Don Weitz, October 25, 2007.
• The Killing of Susan Kelly, by Dorothy Dundas, October 29, 2007.
• The Shocking Truth (For Susan), by Dorothy Washburn Dundas, reprinted from Jeanine Grobe, editor, Beyond Bedlam: Contemporary Women Psychiatric Survivors Speak Out, Chicago Third Side Press (1995)

• Chapter Nine: The Geranium in the Window, A sign for Cain: An Exploration of Human Violence, by Fredric Werthan, M.D., The MacMillan Company, 1966
• Declaration of Principles, Phoenix Rising, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, (1982).
• 1,189 Psychiatrists Say Goldwater Is Psychologically Unfit to be President, Fact (1964)
• Commentary: Mental Health and Violence Against Women: a Feminist Ex-Inmate Analysis, Phoenix Rising, Nov. 1982.
• Chapter VIII: Observations on the Operating Table  in Psychosurgery: In the Treatment of Mental Disorders and Intractable Pain, by Walter Freeman, MD;, PhD, FACP; James W. Watts, MD, FACS, FICS,
• Psychiatry as a Tool of Repression, by Jenny Miller, Science for the People, 14-34 (March/April 1983).
• Psychiatry's Drug Addiction: For 25 Years Doctors Have Been Making Thier Mental Patients Sicker, by Peter Sterling, The New Republic, December 8, 1979.
• Surveys Indicate Big Problem of Abuse by Psychotherapists, by Scott Winokur, The San Francisco Examiner, August 4, 1991.