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OH 2055

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IntervieweeFEINGOLD, Susan (b. 1951)

About this oral history

Interview ID #OH 2055
Date(s) of interview
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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).

Interviewer(s)Rachel Louise Moran
Physical Description58 pp.
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