{"id":78853,"date":"2016-09-05T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=78853"},"modified":"2016-09-02T17:21:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T16:21:34","slug":"aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/09\/aftermath\/","title":{"rendered":"Aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>1989<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With \u201ctherapeutic\u201d fury<br \/>\nsearch-and-destroy doctors<br \/>\nusing instruments of infamy<br \/>\nconduct electrical lobotomies<br \/>\nin little Auschwitzes called mental hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Electroshock specialists brainwash,<br \/>\ntheir apologists whitewash,<br \/>\nas silenced screams echo<br \/>\nfrom pain-treatment rooms<br \/>\ndown corridors of shame.<\/p>\n<p>Selves diminished<br \/>\nwe return<br \/>\nto a world of narrowed dreams<br \/>\npiecing together memory fragments<br \/>\nfor the long journey ahead.<\/p>\n<p>From the roadside<br \/>\ndead-faced onlookers<br \/>\nawash in deliberate ignorance<br \/>\nsanction the unspeakable.<br \/>\nSilence is complicity is betrayal.<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Leonard Roy Frank<\/em><em> (July 15, 1932 \u2013 January 15, 2015) was an American human rights activist, psychiatric survivor, editor, writer, aphorist, and lecturer. Frank lived in San Francisco from 1959 until his death, where he managed an art gallery before he began collecting quotations. In 1962, in San Francisco, Frank was committed to a psychiatric hospital for being &#8216;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paranoid_schizophrenia\" >paranoid schizophrenic<\/a>&#8216; and given <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Insulin_shock_therapy\" >insulin shock therapy<\/a> treatments and dozens of electroconvulsive therapy-ECT <\/em><em>treatments. By 1972, Frank was staff at Madness Network News. In December 1973, he and Wade Hudson founded Network Against Psychiatric Assault (NAPA), a patients&#8217; and survivors&#8217; advocacy group. Of ECT, Frank wrote: &#8220;Over the last thirty-five years I have researched the various shock procedures, particularly electroshock or ECT, have spoken with hundreds of ECT survivors, and have corresponded with many others. From all these sources and my own experience, I have concluded that ECT is a brutal, dehumanizing, memory-destroying, intelligence lowering, brain-damaging, brainwashing, life-threatening technique.&#8221; <\/em>(Wikipedia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With \u201ctherapeutic\u201d fury<br \/>\nsearch-and-destroy doctors<br \/>\nusing instruments of infamy<br \/>\nconduct electrical lobotomies<br \/>\nin little Auschwitzes called mental hospitals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}