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There are many ways to search the collections of the Freedom Archives. Below is a brief guide that will help you conduct effective searches. Note, anytime you search for anything in the Freedom Archives, the first results that appear will be our digitized items. Information for items that have yet to be scanned or yet to be digitized can still be viewed, but only by clicking on the show link that will display the hidden (non-digitized) items. If you are interested in accessing these non-digitized materials, please email info@freedomarchives.org.
Exploring the Collections without the Search Bar
Under the heading Browse By Collection, you’ll notice most of the Freedom Archives’ major collections. These collections have an image as well as a short description of what you’ll find in that collection. Click on that image to instantly explore that specific collection.
Basic Searching
You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
Advanced Searching
The Freedom Archives search site also understands Boolean search logic. Click on this link for a brief tutorial on how to use Boolean search logic. Our search function also understands “fuzzy searches.” Fuzzy searches utilize the (*) and will find matches even when users misspell words or enter in only partial words for the search. For example, searching for liber* will produce results for liberation/liberate/liberates/etc.
Keyword Searches
You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.

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Experts to Talk on Highly Controversial Issues Experts to Talk on Highly Controversial Issues
Author: Elsa Knight ThompsonPublisher: Committee Against Psychiatric Experimentation on PrisonersDate: 3/22/1972Volume Number: 22-MarFormat: Press ReleaseCollection: Mental Health
Flyer for "A Clockwork Orange? Psychiatric Experimentation on Prisoners" conference
Clockwork Orange at UCLA Clockwork Orange at UCLA
Publisher: Committee Against Psychiatric Experimentation on PrisonersDate: 5/8/1973Volume Number: 8-MayFormat: Press ReleaseCollection: Mental Health
Press release from the Committee Against Psychiatric Experimentation on Prisoners regarding the proposed Center for the Study and Reducation of Violence at UCLA
Psychosurgery Curbed by Court Psychosurgery Curbed by Court
Author: William K. StevensPublisher: The New York TimesDate: 7/11/1973Volume Number: 11-JulFormat: ArticleCollection: Mental Health
Reproduction of article.
A Clockwork Orange?: Psychiatric Experimentation on Prisoners Schedule A Clockwork Orange?: Psychiatric Experimentation on Prisoners Schedule
Publisher: Committee Against Psychiatric Experimentation on PrisonersFormat: AgendaCollection: Mental Health
Schedule of speakers for the "A Clockwork Orange? Psychiatric Experimentation on Prisoners" conference
A Clockwork Orange?: Psychiatric Experimentation on Prisoners Flyer A Clockwork Orange?: Psychiatric Experimentation on Prisoners Flyer
Publisher: Committee Against Psychiatric Experimentation on PrisonersFormat: FlyerCollection: Mental Health
Flyer for "A Clockwork Orange? Psychiatric Experimentation on Prisoners" conference
Madness Network News: A Journal of the Psychiatric Inmates' Liberation Movement Madness Network News: A Journal of the Psychiatric Inmates' Liberation Movement
Publisher: Madness Network News, Inc.Year: 1986Volume Number: Vol. 8-2 SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Mental Health
Featured articles include Free All Psychiatric Inmates; Fasting for Freedom; Conference in Washington DC, Incest, Freud and the Movement; A Resolution to Abolish Psychiatric Drugs; Mad Librarian; more.
NAPA Demonstrates at St. Mary's- Public Forum Demanded NAPA Demonstrates at St. Mary's- Public Forum Demanded
Publisher: Network Against Psychiatric AssaultDate: 6/11/1975Volume Number: 11-JunFormat: Press ReleaseCollection: Mental Health
Network Against Psychiatric Assault calls for a rally to continue its campaign against the psychiatric treatment program at St. Mary's McAuley Neuropsychiatric Institute in San Francisco.
Memorandum on The Center for The Study of Violent Behavior Memorandum on The Center for The Study of Violent Behavior
Publisher: Committee Opposing Psychiatric Abuse of PrisonersDate: 4/5/1973Volume Number: 5-AprFormat: ReportCollection: Mental Health
A report on the newly formed Center for the Reduction of Life-Threatening Behavoir. The report concludes that it is particularly susceptible to political manipulation, totally devoid of protections for human rights and liberties, scientifically inadequate and generally unresponsive to the pressing need for a decrease in the level of violence in our culture.
Madness Network News Madness Network News
Publisher: Madness Network News, Inc.Year: 1985Volume Number: Vol. 7-6 SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Mental Health
Featured articles include On Homelessness; Where Do We Go From Here; Electroshock: Recent Developments; The Therapist; Trees Have Been My Best Friends; Smuggled Stories; more.
Liberating Madness Liberating Madness
Author: William PoolePublisher: San Francisco ExaminerDate: 6/29/1986Volume Number: 29-JunFormat: ArticleCollection: Mental Health
Original Article about the anti-psychiatry movement.