This collection comes out of research for Rachel Louise Moran's book-in-progress Postpartum Politics: Motherhood and Mental Health in Modern America. The book examines the transformation of thinking about postpartum mental health between the late-19th to the early 21st centuries, especially the transformations of the 1980s and 1990s.

The collection features 22 [hopefully a couple more?] histories with key figures in maternal mental health in the US between the 1970s to the 2020s. There are interviews with medical professionals, including psychiatrists, psychologists, and therapists. There are also interviews with activists from groups ranging from the Boston Women's Health Collective, Depression After Delivery, Postpartum Support International, and Postpartum Progress.

In this collection maternal mental health is framed broadly. Most interviews focus on postpartum depression (PPD), postpartum psychosis, or what is today described as Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs). The collection also includes interviews with individuals on both sides of the controversial issue of mental illness after abortion, or post-abortion syndrome.

Postpartum Depression/Maternal Mental Health Oral History Collection