Leonard Roy Frank on Psychiatry's Bible the DSM

via MindFreedom

Leonard Roy Frank is a long-time activist in the psychiatric survivor movement. He survived forced electroshock and forced insulin coma therapy. 

Leonard, who is a resident of San Francisco, has written widely about his experiences, and about electroshock. He is also the editor of a number of books of quotes.

Psychiatry’s Bible – DSM - Leonard Frank - ... by psychetruth

Psychiatry’s Bible – The DSM – Leonard Roy Franks – Anti-Psychiatry

Leonard Roy Franks, Anti-psychiatry activist and psychiatric survivor discusses 

the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorder which is put our by the 

American Psychiatric Association.

He gives an overview of mental disorders and role of psychiatry in controlling the 

nonconformists in society.

Franks edited the best-selling Random House Webster's Quotationary in 1998

 and The History of Shock Treatment in 1978. Active in the psychiatric survivors 

movement since 1972, he is a member of MindFreedom International, a coalition 

of more than 100 grassroots groups working for human rights in psychiatry, and 

also The Coalition for the Abolition of Electroshock.

Coalition for the Abolition of Electroshock
http://www.endofshock.com 

The Electroshock Quotationary may be downloaded free of charge at

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

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portions of this post were first published on July 13, 2011