For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Dr. Anne Speckhard is a psychologist who has written on post-abortion stress syndrome, and she has also done research on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and on violent extremism. This interview focuses on her work on post-abortion stress, especially in the 1980s. In the interview she discusses family systems theory, and how she began this area of research. She discusses other abortion stress researchers, including Wanda Franz, Terry Selby, and Vincent Rue.