American Women — Psychology and psychotherapy

  • Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute on Women’s Liberation and Psychoanalysis

    A male speaker (unidentified in the recording) delivers a speech on the psychological impact on the women’s liberation movement. Overall sound quality is poor.

  • Groups / moderated by Robert Kuttner

    Dr. Bruce Maliver, Dr. Martin Shepard, and Terry Becker discuss different approaches to group dynamics, including group therapy, encounter groups, sensitivity groups, and womens’ consciousness raising groups. Dr. Bruce Maliver is a psychoanalyst, a practitioner of group therapy, and critic of encounter groups. Dr. Martin Shepard is the director of training at Anthos, an encounter…

  • Suffocation in suburbia 6: social function and social role in the urban sprawl / Jules Henry (Episode 14 of 15)

    Part 14 of KPFA’s presentation of the University of California’s Medical Center Conference “The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche” held in San Francisco this year. This is Part 6 of “Suffocation in Suburbia.” In this recording Jules Henry, Ph.D.(1904-1969), Professor, Department of Sociology-Anthropology, Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) presents “Social Function and Social Role…

  • Women in marriage / Dr. Elizabeth Howes

    Elizabeth Boyden Howes (1907-2002) was a Jungian psychotherapist and founder of the Guild for Psychological Studies in San Francisco. Howes had been in practice in the Bay Area since 1944 and co-editor of The Choice Is Always Ours (R. R. Smith, 1948), and co-edited And A Time To Die (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961). In…

  • The East Bay Activities Center / moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson

    The East Bay Activities Center was established as a non-profit organization in 1952 and held forth as its mission to serve emotionally disturbed children of normal intelligence between the ages of 5 and 12. This is a panel discussion on this unique Bay Area experiment in dealing with disturbed children. Elsa Knight Thompson moderates, and…

  • Psychic stress analysis of Patty Hearst / by Larry Atterbury

    Unidentified interviewer talks with Larry Atterbury of KTTV Channel 11 Television in Los Angeles and Jim Barnes, who has performed a before-and-after psychological stress test on the voice of Patty Hearst based on two communiqués from the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). Barnes used a machine called the Psychological Stress Evaluator which measures the amount of…

  • The new male / Herb Goldberg interviewed by Barbara Cady.

    Barbara Cady interviews author Herb Goldberg on his book about male-female relations, “The new male: from self-destruction to self-care” (Morrow, 1979). He discusses how sexism affects men as well as women and how male-female relations are still wrapped up in outdated sexist notions – the “macho warrior” archetype for men, the “earth mother” for women.

  • Therapy and revolution

    Dorothy Healey presents this special program: a recording made at a New American Movement sponsored forum on therapy and revolution held on July 23, 1977 in Los Angeles. Three panelists make presentations on the relationship between therapy and radical politics: Russell Jacoby, UCLA professor; Terry Kupers, psychiatrist; Shevy Healy (January 29, 1922-December 8, 2001), feminist…

  • 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.

  • 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…