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May 21, 1995 Programs
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95-05-21-A Hour #1 Religious Equality
95-05-21-B Hour #2 Psychotherapy
95-05-21-C Hour #3 Newspapers
PROGRAM RUNDOWN Hour 1:Religious Equality
SEGMENT 1:
Reverand Lou Sheldon, chairman of the Traditional Values
Coalition, tells Judith Strasser why many conservative
Christians support a "Religious Equality" amendment to
the U.S. constitution. Also, Anne Gaylor, president of the
Freedom from Religion Foundation, tells Jim Fleming why
her group opposes prayer in public schools.
SEGMENT 2:
Historian George Marsden tells Jim Fleming that prior to
the 1960s, America believed that Christian principles and
democratic principles were the same thing. Now religious
considerations of any kind have been banished from the
Academy. Marsden teaches history at Notre Dame and is
the author of "The Soul of the American University." Also,
Phyllis Tickle, religion editor of Publisher's Weekly, tells
Judith Strasser that America is in the midst of the biggest
spiritual revival in its history, if book sales are anything
to go by.
SEGMENT 3:
Neil Douglas-Klotz is the author of "Desert Wisdom:
Sacred Middle Eastern Writings from the Goddess
through the Sufis." He tells Steve Paulson that he has
re-translated these texts and found a common wisdom
that underlies all Western religions.
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for
program number 5-21-A.
PROGRAM RUNDOWN Hour 2:Psychotherapy
SEGMENT 1:
Therapist William Doherty tells Judith Strasser that the
purpose of therapy is not to let patients off the hook and
that it's time to bring back the idea of moral responsibility.
Doherty is the director of the Marriage and Family
Therapy program at the University of Minnesota and the
author of "Soul Searching: Why Psychotherapy Must
Promote Moral Responsibility." Also, clinical
psychologist Paula Caplan is the author of "They Say
You're Crazy: How the World's Most Powerful Psychiatrists
Decide Who's Normal." She tells Margaret Andreasen
what's wrong with the DSM - the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders.
SEGMENT 2:
Clinical psychologist Martha Manning resorted to radical
measures to deal with her intractable depression. She
chronicles her experience with ECT - electro-convulsive
therapy, or shock treatment - in her book "Undercurrents"
and in this conversation with Jim Fleming.
SEGMENT 3:
Ellen Herman teaches in the social studies department at
Harvard, and is the author of "The Romance of American
Psychology." She tells Steve Paulson that mass
screening of recruits during the Second World War
introduced Americans to psychological ideas and
methods which gradually came to dominate the culture.
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for
program number 5-21-B.
PROGRAM RUNDOWN: HOUR 3: Newspapers
SEGMENT 1
Newspapers have moved on-line, and that's only the
beginning. Roger Fidler, director of the Knight-Ridder
Information Design Lab in Boulder, Colorado, tells Jim
Fleming about the flat-panel technology his group is
working on that will combine the technological
possibilities of computers with the portability of print.
Also, Norma Green tells Judith Strasser about
"StreetWise," a newspaper in Chicago written, produced
and sold by homeless people. Green directs the Graduate
Journalism program at Chicago's Columbia College.
SEGMENT 2:
His biographer believes that newspaper columnist H.L.
Mencken was the greatest non-fiction prose stylist in
America. Fred Hobson tells Steve Paulson what drove
Mencken and talks about his blatant anti-semitism.
Hobson's book is called "Mencken: A Life."
SEGMENT 3:
This segment, another newspaper biography: Brooke
Kroeger's "Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist."
Kroeger tells Judith Strasser about stunt journalism and
Bly's indomitable spirit. Also, Sparkle Hayter, journalist
turned fiction writer, tells Jim Fleming about the early
days of CNN, thinly disguised in her hilarious "comic
mystery" novel, What's A Girl Gotta Do?.
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for
program number 5-21-C.
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