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Leonard Roy Frank: commitment before California’s LPS Act
Leonard Roy Frank, 29, committed on a "paranoid schizophrenia" diagnosis and given about 50 insulin comas and 35 electroshocks; he later co-founded NAPA (Dec 1973) and edited The History of Shock Treatment
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What the record says
Worldwide register by region (Batch 2) · Batch 10
- Jurisdiction / date
- San Francisco, 1962–63
- Channel
- 3
- Mechanism
- Pre-LPS commitment; insulin coma and ECT
- What is documented
- Leonard Roy Frank, 29, committed on a "paranoid schizophrenia" diagnosis and given about 50 insulin comas and 35 electroshocks; he later co-founded NAPA (Dec 1973) and edited The History of Shock Treatment
- Finding or status
- Survivor account and movement biographies (Wikipedia with Andre and Warren citations; Street Spirit profile)
- Limits
- Family role in the commitment and the facility (Twin Pines, Belmont) to confirm from his own writings
- Label
- SUPPORTED; LEAD on initiator
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Reference and provenance
1962-CA-SF-FRANK