Frank lived in San Francisco from 1959 until his death, where he managed an art gallery before he began collecting quotations. It was Leonard Roy Frank who discovered notable artist G. Mark Mulleian in 1969 and displayed his work at the Frank gallery.[2][3]
By 1972, Frank worked at Madness Network News. In December 1973, he and Wade Hudson founded Network Against Psychiatric Assault (NAPA), a patients' and survivors' advocacy group.[7][8]
Of ECT, Frank wrote: "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."
Due to his years of anti-ECT testimony and activism, Linda Andre wrote in Doctors of Deception, "If Marilyn Rice was the Queen of Shock, Leonard Roy Frank was the King."[9]
The author Peter Lehmann called Frank "one of the important people who helped to develop the theory and practice of French: humanistic antipsychiatry" and mentioned him in Lehmann's "Expression of Gratitude on the Occasion of the Award of an Honorary Doctoral Degree by the School of Psychology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), September 28, 2010".[10]
A published author, Frank compiled numerous books of quotes and passages, as well as writing about his own experiences.
Electroschock (1996). In Peter Lehmann, Schöne neue Psychiatrie, Vol. 1: Wie Chemie und Strom auf Geist und Psyche wirken (pp. 287–319). Berlin: Antipsychiatrieverlag. ISBN978-3-925931-09-3.
^Frank, Leonard Roy (2003). WISDOM: The Greatest Things Ever Said: Leonard Roy Frank: 9780375720345: Amazon.com: Books. ISBN0375720340.
^"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-03-28. Retrieved 2009-06-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Leonard Roy Frank's Testimony before the NY State Assembly, May 19, 2001