OH 2055 | Oral History

OH 2055

For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Susan Feingold is a psychologist with a specialization in women's perinatal mental health/postpartum depression/postpartum psychosis. Feingold discusses her own postpartum anxiety disorder in 1992, and her subsequent discovery of the postpartum advocacy group Depression After Delivery (DAD). Discusses her work as president of DAD from 1994-1996, as well as her work in private practice seeing postpartum patients, and her later involvement with Postpartum Support International. Then she discusses her work on postpartum psychosis and infanticide legal cases, and her efforts advocating for the passage of IL PA 101-411 (2019). Mentions of Barry Lewis, Nancy Berchtold, Jane Honikman, Lee Cohen, Zachary Stowe, Debra Gindorf, Marcé of North America (MONA).

About this Oral History

Physical Description 58 pp.
Terms of Use Closed until April 14 2025
Interviewer(s) Rachel Louise Moran
Date of Interview April 14, 2021

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