ELECTROSHOCK: CRITIQUES, RECOMMENDED AND SELECTED READINGS, AND ANTI-SHOCK GROUPS
compiled by Don Weitz

"Silence is complicity is betrayal" - Leonard Roy Frank, shock survivor, editor (The History of Shock Treatment), and author (Influencing Minds: A Reader in Quotations)

ANTI-SHOCK READINGS:

Sandra G. Boodman, "Shock Therapy: It's Back. The Washington Post September 24, 1996, pages l6-18

Dennis Cauchon, "Electroshock: Controversy and Questions". USA Today (2 part series), Dec. 6-7, 1995

Leonard Roy Frank, "The History of Shock Treatment, Self-published, 1978.
To order copies, please write to: Leonard Roy Frank, #603-2300 Webster Street, San Francisco, CA 94115 USA

Leonard Roy Frank, "Electroshock: Death, Brain Damage, Memory Loss and Brainwashing", in David Cohen, Editor, The Journal of Mind and Behavior, vol. ll no. 3/4, 1990, pages 489-512

Douglas G. Cameron, "ECT: Sham Statistics, the Myth of Convulsive Therapy and the Case for Consumer Misinformation" in David Cohen, Editor, The Journal of Mind and Behavior, vol. l5 no. 1/2, Winter/Spring 1994, pages 177-198

Peter R. Breggin, M.D. "Electroshock: Its Brain-disabling Effects. New York: Springer Publishing Co. 1979. See also, "Toxic Psychiatry" New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991, pages 184-215

Robert F. Morgan, Ph.D., Editor "Electroshock: The Case Against" Toronto: (P) Publishing Ltd., 1991

Phoenix Rising: Electroshock Supplement, vol. 4 no. 3/4, April 1984. $3.00 per copy (includes mailing)
To order copies, please write to: Don Weitz, #802-38 Orchard View Blvd, Toronto, Ontario M4R 2G3 Canada

Don Weitz, "Surprise Stats on Electroshock", NOW, March 28-April 3, 1996, page 25. Also see, "Electroshocking the Elderly", "Changes: An International Journal of Psychology & Psychotherapy, May 1997

For additional anti-shock references, news, and information, please write to: Barbara Cody, 1305 Blair Lane, Hoffman Estates, IL 60194-1251 USA or Leonard Roy Frank, #603-2300 Webster Street, San Francisco, CA 94115 USA

ANTI-SHOCK GROUPS:

Support Coalition International and its journal "Dendron". For more information, please write to: Dendron P.O. Box 11284 Eugene OR 97740-3484 USA, e-mail: chrp@efn.org, Tel: 503-341-0100. Address correspondence to: Attention: David Oaks, Editor Committee for Truth in Psychiatry (CTIP) and Shockwaves (newsletter).

For more information, please write to: Committee for Truth in Psychiatry, P.O. Box 12l4 New York, N.Y. 10003 USA (Attention: Linda Andre, National Director) Tel: 212-473-4786

World Association of Electroshock Survivors (WAES). Please write to: WAES, P.O. Box 343, San Marcos, Texas 78667 USA (Attention: Dianna Loper & Doug Cameron

Network Against Psychiatric Assault (NAPA). Write to: Kris Yates, 1720 Carleton, Berkeley, CA 94703 USA, e-mail: KrisYates@aol.com, or Leonard Roy Frank, #603-2300 Webster Street, San Francisco, CA 94115 USA

Second Opinion Society (S.O.S.) For more information, please write to: Second Opinion Society, 708 Black Street, Whitehorse, Yukon YlA 2N8 Canada (Attention: Gisela Sartori, Coordinator) Tel: 403-667-2037

ECT Anonymous. Please write to: ECT Anonymous, 14 Western Ave, Riddlesden, Keighley West York's BD20 5DJ UK (Attention: Pat & Roy Butterfield) Tel: 01535-661493 Fax: 01535-602736

Note: With Bonnie Burstow, Leonard Roy Frank and Peter Lehmann, I am currently planning to co-edit a book on electroshock with an international focus. Don Weitz, #802-38 Orchard View Blvd, Toronto, Ontario M4R 2G3 Canada Tel: 4l6-545-0796

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