Letter from Leonard Roy Frank to Judi Chamberlin

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Title:
Letter from Leonard Roy Frank to Judi Chamberlin
Description:
Celebrating the success of an ECT ban in Berkeley and the work done by colleagues in support of this measure. Discussing incidence of suicide amongst the severely depressed from being administered shock therapy or, in the view of psychiatrists, from having it taken away. Questioning how to decide who from should be chosen to attend events on behalf of the movement. Updates on Madness Network News and a concern that not much has been done in the way of preparations for the next year's conference, based on conversations with George Ebert.
Creator:
Frank, Leonard Roy
Addressee:
Chamberlin, Judi, 1944-2010
Date:
[November 4, 1982]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 2 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Judi Chamberlin Papers
Subjects:
Antipsychiatry
Congresses and conventions
Electroconvulsive therapy
Mentally ill--Legal status, laws, etc.
Underground press publications
Extent:
3 p.
Link to Item:
https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums768-b002-f006-i014
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Place of origin:
San Francisco (Calif.)
Language:
English
Notes:
Digitization sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
mums768-b002-f006-i014