American Women — Psychology and psychotherapy
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Everything you’ve always wanted to know about sexual therapy clinics / produced by Nanette Rainone and Steve Post.
This is the first program of a series on sexual therapy clinics and those who go to them; produced by Nanette Rainone and Steve Post. First female speaker is Dr. Helen Kaplan, director of the Sexual Disorders program at the Payne-Whitney Medical Center. Later we hear Dr. John O’Connor of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and others.
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In one ear and out the other / produced by Caryl Ratner, Marc Spector and David Rapkin
Examination of the human mind; how it works and how it should/could work. Get together with R.D. Laing, Harry Partch, Loudon Wainwright III, Ben Johnston, Swami Vivekananda, Tom Lehrer, Roxy Morgan, Germaine Greer, United States Marine Corps., Carly Simon, Beaver & Krause, Ranger and Phoenix, The Eureka Institute, The Incredible String Band, John Cage, Buffy…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The call girl / Dr. Harold Greenwald
Dr. Harold Greenwald, author of The Call Girl: A Social and Psychoanalytic Study (Ballantine), discusses the modern form prostitution takes in the United States, and its relation to the general moral aspect of the nation. Recorded in the studios of WBAI in 1960. Broadcast on WBAI and KPFA in 1961 and 1962.
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Women and sometimes men / Harriet Gill interviewed by Lou Hartman
Lou Hartman talks with Harriet Gill, psychiatric social woker at Langley Porter Clinic, on the personal problems of identity confronted by persons in their 50’s and 60’s, and the difference in nature and degree between the way men and women face old age. The title of the program refers to the book “Women and sometimes…
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Behavior analysis and children’s learning speed / Michael Commons interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson