For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Dr. Diana Lynn Barnes, PsyD. is a psychotherapist specialized in women’s reproductive health, especially postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. She discusses her own postpartum depression, motherhood, her work starting a specialized practice, her time as president of Postpartum Support International (2002-2004), and her work in forensics and postpartum legal defenses.

For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Birdie Gunyon Meyer discusses her background as a nurse, health educator, support group leader, and lactation consultant. Meyer is a past-President of Postpartum Support International (PSI) and serves on the PSI advisory council. She discusses developments between the 1980s-2020s. She was central to the growth of PSI’s training programs and to the creation of a certification in perinatal mental health (PMH-C).

For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Brenda Major discusses her training and work in psychology, including her research into women and achievement. Then the majority of the interview is on her work studying women’s psychological causal attributions around abortion, research conducted in the 1980s. Major also explains how her work fit into a larger political fight over abortion psychology in the late-1980s. This includes mention of the American Psychological Association, Reagan, C.

For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Divya Kumar discusses her work as a clinical social worker and psychotherapist with a specialization in perinatal mental health. She discusses meeting fellow therapists Desiree Israel and Jabina Coleman in 2016, and working with them to found the Perinatal Mental Health Alliance for People of Color in 2017. The Alliance then merged with Postpartum Support International (PSI).

For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Laurence (Larry) Kruckman discusses his work as an anthropologist and as an postpartum depression/perinatal mental health advocate. He discusses early support group work he began in Chicago and Milwaukee in the 1970s, including the Latina group Dara Luz, and his time working with Postpartum Support International (PSI) including creating their original website in the 1990s.

For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Pec Indman is a retired psychotherapist with a focus on maternal mental health and postpartum depression. She discusses her training in psychology and therapy, and her entry to the field of perinatal mental health. Indman discusses her work with Postpartum Support International (PSI), especially her development of PSI training in the 1990s and later work developing certification (PMH-C) through Pearson Vue.

For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Jeanne Watson Driscoll is a retired clinical nurse scientist with a focus on postpartum mental health. She discusses her own history of postpartum obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in the 1970s, her work in breastfeeding counseling and the Boston Association of Childbirth Education, her training in interpersonal psychology, and her work teaching childbirth education in the 1970s and 1980s.

For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Wendy Davis is a psychotherapist and psychologist, and executive director of Postpartum Support International (PSI). The interview centers on her history with maternal mental health/postpartum depression, her work running a support group in the 1980s (Baby Blues Connection in Portland, Oregon), and her involvement in Postpartum Support International. With PSI, she discusses her volunteer work as a state coordinator, her work on the board, and then her eventual hire as executive director (2009).

For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Jabina Coleman is a reproductive psychotherapist and a board-certified lactation consultant. She discusses her work as a social worker, and her work on Black maternal mental health and perinatal mood disorders like postpartum depression. She discusses her businesses, Life House Lactation & Perinatal Services and Breastfeeding Awareness and Empowerment (BAE).

For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Joy Burkhard is a maternal mental health advocate, working on behalf of women with postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, and related diagnoses. Burkhard is founder and executive director of the nonprofit 2020 Mom (the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health). She discusses how she came to found the organization, from her work at CIGNA Healthcare California to her volunteer work with the Junior League of Los Angeles. She discusses legislative strategy, postpartum policy making, and bipartisanship.