American Women — Psychology and psychotherapy

  • Washington Report: March 6, 1972

    Washington Report: March 6, 1972. Interview with Dr. Rona Fields, an American psychologist who is the first American psychologist to visit the Long Kesh internment camp in Northern Ireland. She describes the physical and psychological torture present in the camps. Includes subsequent report on House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearings on Ireland. Program is self-contained.

  • Sexuality and the family

    This week: Sexuality and the family with Lynne Zeavin, Howard Gatlin, and Muriel Dimen. No phone calls on this recording.

  • Femininism and therapy vs. Feminist therapy

    This week: Lynne Zeavin and Muriel Dimen discuss feminism and therapy versus feminist therapy. Self-contained with phone calls edited but left in, including a call with British psychotherapist and author Susie Orbach. Program brought to you by Group For Radical Human Science.

  • Feminist psychoanalytic therapy

    The topic is psychoanalytically-informed feminist therapy, with moderators Lynne Zeavin and Adrienne Harris. Guests include therapists Susie Orbach, Luise Echenbaum, and Carol Bloom from the Women’s Therapy Center Institute, 80 11th Street, New York, 10003. Program sponsored by the Group for Radical Human Science. Note on box “competition/separation, power, woman-woman, woman to man.”

  • About Men / Phyllis Chesler

    Phyllis Chesler (1940 – ), author and psychotherapist, is interviewed by Viv Sutherland of WBAI about her book “About Men” (1978). Chesler discusses men’s reactions to her book, explains more about the structure of her book and provides a psychoanalytic account for male hatred of women. Produced for KPFA by Karla Tonella

  • Lesbian Express: Therapy (Part 2 only)

    Lesbian Express presents a program on Therapy. This is part 2, part 1 is missing. Note found in box: “There was no aircheck made for the Therapy Show. The show began with a taped reading of “Edward the Dyke” by the author Judy Grahn. This tape was borrowed. If you wish, we can submit the…

  • Dying to be heard: the work of Ann Sexton

    Dying to be heard: the work of Ann Sexton read by Karen Ludwig. Opens with a reading of the New York Times obituary for Jo Roman, an artist who chose voluntary suicide. This program is listed in the WBAI August 1979 Folio under the title “To die in order to be heard: women whose works…

  • Perspectives in therapy: October 21, 1971

    Helen Landgarten, art therapist, hosts a panel of people representing the Betsy Wooden Center for Psychotherapy in Encino, CA on the topic of the recent trend in mental health field toward group practice. The panel is composed of Robert Zweber, founder of the group; Charles Hurt, Daisy Spiegel, and Dr. Melvyn Werbach. Formerly cataloged as…

  • Perspectives in therapy: September 24, 1971

    Helen Landgarten, art therapist, examines differing approaches to psychiatric practice in the Los Angeles community. Her guest is Dr. Janet Ruckert, psychologist in private practice and training therapist on the staff of the Gestalt Institute. Ruckert describes the gestalt therapy, its origins in the work of Fritz Perle, and how it differs from other kinds…