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Oral History Interview with Divya Kumar, October 7, 2022

Description: Interview with Divya Kumar, an independent clinical social worker and psychotherapist from Boston, Massachusetts. Kumar discusses getting a certification in perinatal mental health from PSI, becoming a co-founder of the Perinatal Mental Health Alliance for People of Color, Postpartum Progress, PSI trainings, issues, becoming an advisor, defining identity as a mother and as a person, and advocacy for diversity in leadership.
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Date: October 7, 2022
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Kumar, Divya
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Wendy Davis, October 7, 2022

Description: Interview with Wendy Davis, the executive director of Postpartum Support International from Portland, Oregon. Davis discusses her background in psychotherapy/psychology, becoming involved in the perinatal mental health field through her own experience with postpartum depression and anxiety, being helped by a doula, getting involved in maternal mental health groups, PSI and DAD, and the growth and development of PSI over time.
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Date: October 7, 2022
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Davis, Wendy
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Joy Burkhard, October 6, 2022

Description: Interview with Joy Burkhard, a mother and founder/executive director of the nonprofit organization 2020 Mom, soon to be renamed the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health, from Valencia, California. Burkhard discusses work in the health delivery system, her own experience with motherhood, Postpartum Support International, founding her organization, maternal mental health disorders, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, and the importance of access to child care and support.
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Date: October 6, 2022
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Burkhard, Joy
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Susan Dowd Stone, September 23, 2022

Description: Interview with Susan Dowd Stone, a clinician, advocator, writer, family pillar, and educator at NYU from Englewood, New Jersey. Stone discusses working in business, transitioning to social work, the joint meeting between Depression After Delivery and Postpartum Support International, becoming PSI president, the Mothers Act, the DSM, and postpartum depression.
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Date: September 23, 2022
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Stone, Susan Dowd
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Nancy Byatt, September 16, 2022

Description: Interview with Nancy Byatt, a perinatal psychiatrist from Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Byatt discusses background, family, education, experiences with women who had postpartum depression, starting The Lifeline for Family Center and the Lifeline for Moms at UMass, founding The Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Program for Moms, securing funding for the programs, and a sense of identity as a physician/scientist who partners with activists and advocates.
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Date: September 16, 2022
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Byatt, Nancy
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Adrienne Griffen, August 12, 2022

Description: Interview with Adrienne Griffen, the Executive Director of the Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance from Arlington, Virginia. Griffen discusses her family, time as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy, education, her own experience with postpartum depression, becoming an advocate, Postpartum Support International, other leaders and organizations in her field, postpartum psychosis, statistics, and treatments.
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Date: August 12, 2022
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Griffen, Adrienne
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Jerry F. Price, May 31, 2022

Description: Interview with Jerry F. Price, a celebrated coach from Grandview, Missouri. Price discusses growing up in Denton, his sports background, teaching at Lincoln High School in Kansas City, becoming a football, basketball, track, and golf head coach, integration of schools, his football accomplishments, family, and his health. Documents are included in the Appendix to this interview.
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Date: May 31, 2022
Creator: Wilson, Sara D. & Price, Jerry F.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Donald E. Francisco, April 14, 2022

Description: Interview with Donald E. Francisco, a University of North Texas graduate and a University of North Carolina emeritus professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering. Francisco discusses his background, education, his experience as a lab assistant at UNT, segregation and integration in Denton history, his involvement in the civil rights movement, working at a foundry, religion, teaching at and family.
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Date: April 14, 2022
Creator: Moye, Todd & Francisco, Donald E.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Ann Dunnewold, April 21, 2021

Description: Interview with Ann Dunnewold, a psychologist from Oberlin, Ohio. Dunnewold discusses her education, struggling with postpartum depression, Postpartum Support International, psychotherapy, self-care, writing the Postpartum Survival Guide, and her practice in Dallas.
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Date: April 21, 2021
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Dunnewold, Ann
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Oral History Interview with Susan Feingold, April 14, 2021

Description: Interview with Dr. Susan Benjamin Feingold, a clinical psychologist from Chicago, Illinois. Feingold discusses her education, the early gender gap in her area of study, her own pregnancy, postpartum depression, starting a practice related to perinatal psychology, and the experiences she had speaking on behalf of women with postpartum psychosis.
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Date: April 14, 2021
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Feingold, Susan
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Oral History Interview with Barry M. Lewis, April 13, 2021

Description: Interview with Barry M. Lewis, an attorney from Chicago, Illinois. Lewis discusses his background in law, education, the COVID-19 Pandemic, his involvement with postpartum cases, postpartum psychoses, the DSM, and literature and treatment related to postpartum mental illnesses.
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Date: April 13, 2021
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Lewis, Barry M.
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Oral History Interview with Carol Dix, March 29, 2021

Description: Interview with Carol Dix, an author from London, England. Dix describes her pregnancy and giving birth experiences, Postpartum Depression, the writing she produced, her surgeries, crime, life in London, and her children.
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Date: March 29, 2021
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Dix, Carol
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with David K. Carlson, March 23, 2021

Description: Interview with David Carlson, a rancher and retired psychologist from Denton, Texas. The focus of the interview is the "Texas blackout," a weeklong power outage from February 14th to February 21st, 2021. Carlson discusses working at nursing homes during the COVID-19 Pandemic, his ranch, how they took care of the animals and themselves during the freeze, and the animal births that occurred during this time.
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Date: March 23, 2021
Creator: Crittenden, Micah Carlson & Carlson, David K.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Benjamin B. Luong, March 15, 2021

Description: Interview with Benjamin Bình-Thiên Phạm Lương, a chef from Dallas, Texas who studied at the Culinary Institute of America. Benjamin discusses the background of his Vietnamese parents, the Vietnam War, politics, his father's education in the United States, and his own personal journey to becoming a chef.
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Date: March 15, 2021
Creator: Bridges-Jacobsen, Lauren & Luong, Benjamin Bình-Thiên Phạm
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Elisabeth Brolin, March 7, 2021

Description: Interview with Elisabeth Brolin discussing her early life in Switzerland, immigration to the DFW area, journey to becoming a United States citizen, her discovery of her faith and of God, her life as an immigrant in the United States, her social connections, and the concept of the American Dream.
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Date: March 7, 2021
Creator: Kvapilova, Katerina & Brolin, Elisabeth
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Nancy Berchtold, March 2, 2021

Description: Interview with Nancy Berchtold, a women's support group leader from Pennsylvania. Berchtold discusses her pregnancy, postpartum psychosis, postpartum depression, the Pacific postpartum Support Society in Vancouver, starting the Depression After Delivery support group for women, television appearances, conferences, and change over time.
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Date: March 2, 2021
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Berchtold, Nancy
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Mari Collins, February 28, 2021

Description: Interview with Mari Collins, a resident of Fort Worth, Texas, to discuss experiences during the "Texas Blackout," the power and water outage that happened between February 14th and 18th of 2021 due to the winter storm. Collins describes how hey took their care of their pets during that time, how they interacted with their neighbors, and how they handled lack of water and electricity.
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Date: February 28, 2021
Creator: Crittenden, Micah Carlson & Collins, Mari
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Oral History Interview with Wanda Franz, February 21, 2020

Description: Interview with Wanda Franz, developmental psychologist and anti-abortion activist. She was president of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) for twenty years, between 1991-2001. In this interview she speaks especially on her research and activism around “post-abortion syndrome,” the idea abortion can lead to psychological illness, including a 1988 congressional hearing. Interviewee discusses developmental psychology, C. Everett Koop, Ronald Reagan, and Vincent Rue.
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Date: February 21, 2020
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Franz, Wanda
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Oral History Interview with Shoshana Bennett, February 13, 2020

Description: Interview with Dr. Shoshana Bennett, survivor of postpartum depression and anxiety, as well as a clinical psychologist focused on maternal mental health and maternal-infant attachment. She discusses her career as a clinical psychologist, personal experience with postpartum depression and anxiety, founding the support/advocacy group Postpartum Assistance for Mothers in 1987, and becoming a leader in the development of postpartum depression-specific therapy.
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Date: February 13, 2020
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Bennett, Shoshana S.
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Oral History Interview with Paula Doress-Worters, February 10, 2020

Description: Interview with Paula Doress-Worters, founding member of the Boston Women’s Health Collective (1969) and author of the postpartum chapters in the booklet, Women and their Bodies (1969), and the book Our Bodies, Ourselves (1970). She discusses her own postpartum illness and hospitalization in 1966, and her experience with the Boston Women’s Collective and Our Bodies, Ourselves.
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Date: February 10, 2020
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Doress-Worters, Paula B. (Paula Brown)
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Anne Speckhard, February 6, 2020

Description: Interview with Dr. Anne Speckhard, Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at Georgetown University, and director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism where she is currently studying counter-terrorism initiatives. This interview focuses on Dr. Speckhards research and work related to post-abortion stress responses. She discusses post-abortion trauma syndrome, perinatal psychology, informed consent, her position as a public figure on abortion … more
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Date: February 6, 2020
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Speckhard, Anne
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Oral History Interview with Margaret Spinelli, January 24, 2020

Description: Interview with Margaret Spinelli, an author and psychiatrist at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. Spinelli discusses her background in nursing, founding the women's mental heath program at Columbia, her research on antepartum and postpartum depression and psychotherapy, her experience with neonaticide cases, and her book.
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Date: January 24, 2020
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Spinelli, Margaret
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Oral History Interview with Katherine L. Wisner, January 14, 2020

Description: Interview with Dr. Katherine L. Wisner, professor of psychiatry and director of the Asher Center for Study and Treatment of Depressive Disorders at Northwestern University, about her research and work related to perinatal mental health.
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Date: January 14, 2020
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Wisner, Katherine Leah
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Oral History Interview with Brenda Major, December 19, 2019

Description: Interview with Dr. Brenda Major, a psychologist from Truckee, California. Major discusses her background, education, the influence of the women's movement, attribution theory, abortion psychology, traumatic post-abortion syndrome, and research on postpartum depression and other mental illnesses related to pregnancy.
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Date: December 19, 2019
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Major, Brenda
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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