The Memory Hole Podcast

From Freud to GeraldoShow 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, 6/28/2023Freud: The Making of an Illision The Freudian Cover Up https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/10040046----Mark PendergrastInterview 6/14/2023Quotes 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----Ms. Magazine Cover Story - Believe it. Cult ritual abuse existshttps://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/drawn-to-purpose/about-this-exhibition/magazine-covers-and-cartoons/disturbing-content/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 ----Melody Gavigan’s story of retraction appears in Time Magazine, in an article Lias of the Mind from 1993https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,979691,00.html----Statements from professional organizations disavowing recovered memory therapies:Americal Medical Associationhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00207149508409955American Psychiatric Association  https://www.psychiatry.org/getattachment/930fb215-2147-40e9-9d44-f06d84fc64de/Position-2013-Memories-Child-Abuse.pdf----Decision in the Holly Ramona legal case: https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/14/us/father-who-fought-memory-therapy-wins-damage-suit.html----Geraldo Rivera, as quoted in The Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic, 2004 -from CNBC 12/12/1995----The False Memory Syndrome Foundationhttp://www.fmsfonline.org/War of Remembrance, Philadelphia Magazine, January 1994Pam Freyd Interview with David Calof in Treating Abuse Today 1994Clips from the Documentary Making Memories used with permission of Patrick ClancyAccess 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 Doehttp://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume3/j3_3_3.htmThe Cut chooses Jennifer Freydhttps://www.thecut.com/article/false-memory-syndrome-controversy.htmlRebuttalshttps://carriepoppyyes.medium.com/four-letters-new-york-magazine-hasnt-printed-88e08e94db5fBeware the Incest Survivor Machine, New York Times, Carol Tavris 1993https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/03/books/beware-the-incest-survivor-machine.htmlCover image collage by Jena Martin featuring the Sphinx from the painting Oedipus and the Sphinx Francois-Xavier Fabre, 1808The tragic story of Oedipus https://www.thecollector.com/oedipus-rex-artworks/Any and all background music from the free YouTube Audio LibraryThe Memory Hole Podcast theme is: A Great Darkness Approaches, Can You Feel It? by  ELPHNT  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jenamartin.substack.com

All quotes come from the 1st Edition of The Courage to Heal; a guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse, 1988For more audio background about the book, please check out the Conspirituality podcast's two brilliant episodes on this text.Meredith Maran Interview 5/23/2023Mark Pendegrast Interview 6/14/2023Frederick Crews Interview 6/28/2023The cover image for this episode is of Cassandra (Cassandra. 3307: Bust by Max Klinger, 1857-1920. Hamburger Kunsthalle) "Have I missed the mark, or, like true archer, do I strike my quarry? Or am I prophet of lies, a babbler from door to door?" (Cassandra. Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1194).Any and all background music from the free YouTube Audio LibraryThe Memory Hole Podcast theme is: A Great Darkness Approaches, Can You Feel It? by  ELPHNT  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jenamartin.substack.com

Please note: between minutes 3:30-4:56 on some platforms there is a blank space. This was a YouTube clip of an Oprah Winfrey program in 1986, included to demonstrate the pervasiveness of this topic in popular culture. If this is missing in your feed, please accept my apologies. Here is the incident referred to:In addition to physical abuse, young Winfrey was sexually assaulted by more than one family member when she was just nine years old. She was also molested by a family friend while still a little girl. Oprah shared these traumas with the public very early on in her career. The New York Times reported in 1986 that during an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show about battered women and incest. She started to cry when a guest talked about her experiences of abuse and sexual assault, asking for a station break and hugging the woman, at which point she revealed her own experiences as a victim and survivor. She later said “For the longest time, I carried this burden around with me and was afraid to tell anybody because I thought it was my fault.” Prime time movie night Something about Amelia After school special: Don’t Touch Rosanne BarrDuring an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, the comedian admitted that she is ashamed to have levied allegations of sexual abuse against her mother and father in 1991."I think it's the worst thing I've ever done," she said. "It's the biggest mistake that I've ever made."https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/roseanne-barr-incest-156910/Oprah Winfrey https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9604633/Oprah-recalls-repeatedly-raped-19-year-old-cousin-age-nine.htmlMeredith Maran Interview 5/23/23 Dan Rather CBS Evening News, March 1988, Television ArchivePlayboy magazine comic, quoted from The Best Kept Secret, Florence Rush 1980Quotes from: John Money, Wardell Pommeroy, Larry Constantine from The Best Kept Secret, Florence Rush 1980More about Florence RushLove’s Baby Soft Commercial, 1975 “Because innocence is sexier than you think.” Mark Pendergrast Interview 6/14/23 Laura Pasley https://www.stopbadtherapy.com/retracts/pasley.shtmlLaura Pasley appeared in documentary: Making Memories, from the False Memory Foundation (Patrick Clancy)Any and all background music from the free YouTube Audio LibraryThe Memory Hole Podcast theme is: A Great Darkness Approaches, Can You Feel It? by  ELPHNThttps://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-trailblazer-of-trauma-studies-asks-what-victims-really-want This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jenamartin.substack.com

How on earth did I become interested in this topic? That's what this episode is about. Interview with Meredith Maran, conducted 5/23/2023You can request a copy of her memoir, My Lie, A True Story of False Memory on her website https://meredithmaran.com/You can hear an interview she conducted about this book here. Dead Can Dancehttps://www.deadcandance.com/The charm of prostitution: Risky Businesshttps://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1017641-risky_business‘Alternative’ in the 1990s was about more than music.https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/AlternativeObsession commercials. Are you obsessed? I still am.https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1985/03/14/ah-the-obsession-with-it-all/ebd515cd-0c94-451a-a55d-0402448ad81a/More Calvin Klein and the zeitgeist.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/style/ck-one-fragrance-cologne.htmlHeather Locklear and viral social conceptshttps://www.retroist.com/p/and-they-told-two-friends-how-faberge-organics-shampoo-explained-viralityAny and all background music from the free YouTube Audio LibraryThe Memory Hole Podcast theme is: A Great Darkness Approaches, Can You Feel It? by  ELPHNT   This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jenamartin.substack.com

Exploring the Recovered Memory Movement of the late 80's and 90's, the podcast delves into psychological hysteria and techniques used to uncover childhood abuse memories. Sound clips from experts and a warning for mature audiences add depth to the narrative.