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.