Women — Mental health.

  • The Crippled Person / lecture and interview with Dr. Carl Faber (Episode 1 of 4)

    This is the first episode “The Crippled Person” in a four part series of lectures by Dr. Carl Faber entitled “Woman as slave.” This episode is in three parts. In part one, Dr. Faber is interviewed prior to KPFK’s presentation of the first lecture by Helene Rosenbluth, a young lesbian feminist and Roy Tuckman, male…

  • Interview no. 2 with Dr. Carl Faber (Episode 1 of 4, Part 3 of 3)

    Dr. Faber is interviewed after the first lecture in the series. Helene Rosenbluth, a young lesbian feminist, and Roy Tuckman, male feminist, interview Faber about how men can avoid abusing women and being sexist; women working alone versus women in a group; coupleism versus groupism; definitions of vulnerability; ego defense; and eastern versus western philosophical…

  • Interview no. 3 with Dr. Carl Faber (Episode 2 of 4, Part 2 of 2)

    Dr. Faber is interviewed after the second lecture in the series about places that women stop at, types of criticism of women who are liberating themselves, and sexual fragmentation versus sexual repression versus sexual health. Following that there is a discussion on the value of group validation and a debate on elitism and its relation…

  • The crippled person (Episode 1 of 4, Part 2 of 3)

    This is the lecture portion of the first part of the series on “Woman as slave” featuring Dr. Carl Faber, a clinical psychologist formerly with UCLA. In this lecture, Faber says men can’t define women’s roles and that psychology is piggish. The deal with men has been for women to be crippled, allowed various thoughts…

  • Dropping out / lecture and interview with Dr. Carl Faber (Episode 2 of 4)

    This is the second episode “Dropping Out” in a four part series of lectures by Dr. Carl Faber entitled “Woman as slave.” This episode is in two parts. Part one is the lecture portion of the episode, recorded in January 1977. Faber argues that women who have played traditional roles, when they try to change…

  • Women and mental health / moderated by Viv Sutherland.

    A discussion about women and mental health with Irene Javors, Coordinator of the National Organization for Women, New York (NOW-NY)’s Psychology Committee; Dr. Judith Benetar, psychiatrist and author of “Admissions”; Dr. Louis Cutrona, clinical psychologist; and Elaine Derso. Hosted by Viv Sutherland.

  • Women and psychosurgery / Dr. Peter Breggin ; interviewed by Jane Backner.

    Jane Backner interviews Dr. Peter Breggin, Washington, DC psychiatrist, who has for the past year done research into the return of psycho-surgery and lobotomy as an accepted medical treatment for a variety of diagnosed emotional problems. In this program he discusses why the large majority of people undergoing psychosurgery are women. Dr. Breggin is on…