American Women — Psychology and psychotherapy
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Thinking of suicide / Bernard Mayes interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson
Bernard Mayes was an ordained Episcopal priest, a volunteer radio producer at KPFA, and the founder of the first suicide prevention hotline in America, started in San Francisco in 1963. Mayes published his autobiography Escaping God’s Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest through the University of Virginia Press in 2001. In this program, founder…
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Children in the dark / Daniel Blain and Lee Davenport; interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson
Two psychologists discuss views of and treatment for mentally retarded children. Dr. Daniel Blain, Director of the Department of Mental Hygiene for the state of California, and Lee Davenport, President of the East Bay Association for Retarded Children, are interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson. RECORDED: 28 Jan. 1960. BROADCAST: KPFA, 3 Mar. 1960.