The Memory Hole Podcast Ep. 4: The Fog of War; believing the unbelievable.
From Freud to Geraldo
Show Notes:
Frederick Crews is a professor emeritus of English at the University of California at Berkeley. His many books include The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy, The Random House Handbook (currently in its sixth edition), and Postmodern Pooh.
Interview, 6/28/2023
Freud: The Making of an Illision
The Freudian Cover Up
https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/10040046
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Mark Pendergrast
Interview 6/14/2023
Quotes from Prodigy, early internet chat room, taken from his book Victims of Memory.
His more recent and comprehensive book on this subject is Mind Warp:
https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Warp-Repressed-Arose-Refuses/dp/0942679415
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Ms. Magazine Cover Story - Believe it. Cult ritual abuse exists
The article is unavailable on the Ms. Magazine website archives; a PDF copy can be accessed on the Memory Hole Podcast website, www.memoryholepodcast.com
Reaction to the article: https://www.thefreelibrary.com/All+the+babies+you+can+eat.-a013566129
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Melody Gavigan’s story of retraction appears in Time Magazine, in an article Lias of the Mind from 1993
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,979691,00.html
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Statements from professional organizations disavowing recovered memory therapies:Americal Medical Association
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00207149508409955
American Psychiatric Association https://www.psychiatry.org/getattachment/930fb215-2147-40e9-9d44-f06d84fc64de/Position-2013-Memories-Child-Abuse.pdf
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Decision in the Holly Ramona legal case:
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/14/us/father-who-fought-memory-therapy-wins-damage-suit.html
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Geraldo Rivera, as quoted in The Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic, 2004
-from CNBC 12/12/1995
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The False Memory Syndrome Foundation
War of Remembrance, Philadelphia Magazine, January 1994
Pam Freyd Interview with David Calof in Treating Abuse Today 1994
Clips from the Documentary Making Memories used with permission of Patrick Clancy
Access it here:
False Memories: Remembering What Never Occurred? (TW: Child Sexual Abuse)
Pam Freyd’s article, published anonymously: How Could This Happen? Coping with A False Accusation of Incest and Rape, Jane Doe
http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume3/j3_3_3.htm
The Cut chooses Jennifer Freyd
https://www.thecut.com/article/false-memory-syndrome-controversy.html
Rebuttals
https://carriepoppyyes.medium.com/four-letters-new-york-magazine-hasnt-printed-88e08e94db5f
Beware the Incest Survivor Machine, New York Times, Carol Tavris 1993
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/03/books/beware-the-incest-survivor-machine.html
Cover image collage by Jena Martin featuring the Sphinx from the painting Oedipus and the Sphinx Francois-Xavier Fabre, 1808
The tragic story of Oedipus
https://www.thecollector.com/oedipus-rex-artworks/
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