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1983
Madness Network News, Inc.
San Francisco (Calif.) - A magazine with articles by, for, and about mental patients, including resources for ex-mental patients and current patients, and personal stories. This issue has several articles dealing with electroshock therapy, the negative side effects of the procedure, legislation around it, and the deaths that have been caused by shock treatment. There are movement notes from around the world. An article detail... more
1982
Madness Network News, Inc.
San Francisco (Calif.) - A magazine with articles by, for, and about mental patients, including resources for ex-mental patients and current patients, and personal stories. In this issue there are impressions from several participants of the tenth International Conference on Human Rights and Psychiatric Oppression held in Toronto in May 1982. There are excerpts from testimony given by former psychiatric inmates at a Toronto t... more
1985
Madness Network News, Inc.
San Francisco (Calif.) - A magazine with articles by, for, and about mental patients, including resources for ex-mental patients and current patients, and personal stories. This issue starts with articles about forced sterilization, spurred by the recent decision of a 1985 California Supreme Court to allow the forced sterilization of a woman with a mental disability against her will, while other articles focus on the way that... more
1985
Madness Network News, Inc.
San Francisco (Calif.) - A magazine with articles by, for, and about mental patients, including resources for ex-mental patients and current patients, and personal stories. This issue discusses the problem of homelessness in the United States, and the fact that many homeless people have psychiatric histories. There is an article on recent developments in electroshock therapy. Much of this issue is devoted to debates within th... more
1983
Madness Network News, Inc.
San Francisco (Calif.) - A magazine with articles by, for, and about mental patients, including resources for ex-mental patients and current patients, and personal stories. This issue features articles on the overturn of a ban on electroshock therapy in Berkeley, recent movement group actions against the American Psychiatric Association, testimony from several psychiatric survivors at a panel and tribunal, as well as accounts... more
1982
Madness Network News, Inc.
San Francisco (Calif.) - A magazine with articles by, for, and about mental patients, including resources for ex-mental patients and current patients, and personal stories. This issue begins with an article by Lenny Lapon on psychiatry as a tool of fascism and the killing of mental patients in Nazi Germany. There is also an article on the crime of forced treatment by Leonard Roy Frank and an article on the history of Women Ag... more
1985
Madness Network News, Inc.
San Francisco (Calif.) - A magazine with articles by, for, and about mental patients, including resources for ex-mental patients and current patients, and personal stories. This issue features articles on the twelfth Annual Conference on Human Rights and Psychiatric Oppression, including various people speaking out at the conference about their personal experiences. Members of the movement are invited to respond to articles o... more
1981
Madness Network News, Inc.
San Francisco (Calif.) - A magazine with articles by, for, and about mental patients, including resources for ex-mental patients and current patients, and personal stories. This issue devotes some focus to the various components of the European movement. The second part of an article by Tanya Temkin goes in detail into the forced sterilization of people with mental disabilities as part controlling people. An article by Arlene... more