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Madness network news.

Title: Madness network news.
Publication: San Francisco : Madness Network News.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll+++ Counterculture M33 1973	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Publication Date

v. 1-
Began in 1972?

Description

ill.; 36 x 44 cm.

Alternative Title

Madness netw. news
Madness network news

Subject

Note

"All the fits that's news to print."
Madness Network News was an anti-psychotherapy/psychiatry journal that opposed most psychiatric treatments of insanity, especially drug and shock therapies.
Leonard Roy Frank (b. 1932), one of the chief contributors to Madness Network News, was a pioneering agitator in the field of mental health who endured many treatments of Electro Convulsive Therapy. He was proprietor of the Frank Gallery in San Francisco, and his arts background is reflected in the professionally executed production values of Madness Network News, which is leavened with "mad" art and perspectival photography. In December 1973, he and Wade Husdon formed the Network Against Psychiatric Assault (NAPA) for which Madness Network News provided a forum.
Among the topics to which special issues are dedicated are Project Artichoke, a covert CIA project that researched interrogation methods and arose from Project Bluebird on August 20, 1951, under the Office of Scientific Intelligence; Project MK-ULTRA (also administered by the Office of Scientific Intelligence), into which Project Artichoke evolved, a human research and mind control program which included the surreptitious administration of drugs and other chemicals, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, and other "brainwashing" research projects allegedly administered by the CIA, the U.S. Army, and the National Institute of Mental Health. Other issues feature articles on women, Tardives Dyskinesia (a disease of involuntary, repetitive movements, often a consequence of long-term or high-dose anti-psychotic drugs), Lithium ("The Great Pretender"), and European anti-psychiatric movements, including the Socialist Patients' Collective (SPK). Other issues and articles discuss pharmaceutical industry profiteering, anti-psychiatric documentaries and films, the sources of creativity, etc.

Access (note)

Restricted access;

Call Number

Berg Coll+++ Counterculture M33 1973

ISSN

0740-1957

LCCN

sn 83002577

OCLC

4219728

Title

Madness network news.

Imprint

San Francisco : Madness Network News.

Current Frequency

Quarterly <, summer 1983- >

Former Frequency

Irregular

Access

Restricted access; request permission from holding division.

Local Note

The Berg Collection holds the following 25 issues: v. 1, no. 5; v. 2, no. 1-5; v. 3 no. 2-6; v. 4, no. 1-6, v. 5, no. 1-6, and v. 6, no. 1-2 (May 1973-Winter 1981).

Berg Collection copies franked with mailing labels or handwritten addresses.

Berg Collection copies formerly owned by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, a prominent San Francisco (Castro district) lesbian couple who were ardent activists for gay rights and feminism, and who founded the Daughters of Bilitis. They were the first same sex couple to get married in San Francisco.

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Added Author

Frank, Leonard Roy. Contributor

Hirsch, Sherry. Contributor

Hudson, Wade. Contributor

Keene, Richard. Contributor

Krawitz, Gail. Contributor

Safer, Carol. Contributor

Tesauro, Tullia. Contributor

Weitzner, Judith. Contributor

Martin, Del. Former owner

Lyon, Phyllis. Former owner

Abbreviated Title

Madness netw. news

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+++ Counterculture M33 1973

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