Madness Network Interview With Leonard Ray Frank And Anne Boldt

Program Title:
Madness Network Interview With Leonard Ray Frank And Anne Boldt
PRA Archive #: 
IZ0373
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Madness Network Interview With Leonard Ray Frank And Anne Boldt| Produced by Alan Markman| May 5, 1983. - CONTENT: Interview by Alan Markman with Leonard Jay Franks and Anne Boldt. Boldt and Franks refer to themselves as "ex-psychiatric inmates" and are members of an organization/ movement called "Psychiatric Inmates Liberation Movement." The organization's members offer each other support and they believe they will gain strength by gathering together in numbers. At the time of the interview, Frank and Boldt had been part of a demonstration to protest electroshock treatment for pychiatric inmates at Grace Square Hospital. Frank was himself the recipient of shock therapy and believes it is "brutal and dehumanizing" which results in brain damage. The interview includes discusssion about other demonstrations and goals for the future. - Broadcast May 5, 1983.

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WBAI
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30:00
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