Women — Psychology.


  • 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…


  • Sexuality, violence, and aggression / lecture and interview with Dr. Carl Faber (Episode 3 of 4)

    This is the third episode “Sexuality, violence, and aggression” in a four part series of lectures by Dr. Carl Faber entitled “Woman as slave.” This episode is in two parts. Part one is Faber’s lecture on sexuality, violence, and aggression, given in January 1977. Dr. Carl Faber, a heterosexual monogamist, lectures on how, with awareness,…


  • Future issues in the women’s movement / lecture and interview with Dr. Carl Faber (Episode 4 of 4)

    This is the fourth and final episode, “Future issues in the Women’s movement,” 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. In this lecture, Faber looks at possibilities in…


  • 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…


  • Inside the female mind

    A panel discussion on female psychology, the problems inherent in traditional methods of treatment of women, and look at the alternatives which are being explored today by women, who are traditionally the largest group of people seeking psychiatric treatment. Panel consists of Bernice Augenbraun, Marilyn Leigh and Marlene Bram. Features listener call-ins. Hosted and produced…


  • Rae Lake Costos on the androgynous soul / interviewed by Lois Hansen.

    Rae Lake Costos, known as the “Bard at Large” on Pacifica’s Houston station KPFT, visited Berkeley in June during an extended trip around the West. In this trip, Ms. Costos has been visiting centers of mystical humanist thought in order to enhance her understanding of the status of cosmic thinking in this country about the…


  • Feminist theatre: a woman alone

    The fears, strengths, and hopes of women alone are explored in the reflections of three women. The program was written by Riane Eisler, directed by Constance Pfeiffer and produced by Sherry Tyler and Sue Welch. The original music is by Lynn Patrick. Actress Judith Roberts also appears in this production for KPFK by the Women’s…


  • Training the woman to know her place / Sandra Bem and Darryl Bem.

    Doctors Sandra and Darryl Bem, husband and wife and professors of psychology at Standford University, speaking at Stanford Alumni Weekend in May of 1971. The lecture deals with the pervasive effect of sex role conditioning which is primarily responsible for the fact that so few women emerge from childhood with the motivation to pursue careers…


  • Radical psychiatry and women’s oppression / Hogie Wyckoff ; introduced by Claude Steiner.

    In July of 1970, Dr. Claude Steiner, one of the founders of the Rap Center of Berkeley, offered a course in Radical Psychiatry at the Free University of Berkeley. This presentation of the course is on women’s oppression and how he now deals with it in his groups. Hogie Wyckoff, also a radical therapist, presents…


  • Single and pregnant / Ruth Pierce interviewed by Joan Churton

    Ruth I. Pierce, author of “Single and Pregnant,” is interviewed by Joan Churton. The two discuss the social and psychological problems of being an unmarried pregnant woman, and how a puritanical society that shies away from discussing unwed pregnancy can do a disservice to young men and women. The book is meant to provide information…