The Memory Hole Podcast Jena_with1n

Show notes for Episode 6:

Carrie Poppy

https://maximumfun.org/about/team/carrie-poppy/



Historian Edward Shorter

From Paralysis to Fatigue; a history of psychosomatic illness in the modern era



Idioms of distress

https://www.brightfutures.org/concerns/culture/cultural-concepts.html



Article in The Cut:

The Memory War; Jennifer Freyd accused her father of sexual abuse. Her parents’ attempt to discredit her created a defense for countless sex offenders.



Carrie’s response: The Letters New York Magazine Hasn’t Printed.



 Meredith Maran

Interview 5/23/2023

My Lie; A True Story of False Memory



Forward to the second edition Diana Russell’s book, The Secret Trauma, published in 1999.

 https://www.dianarussell.com/the_great_incest_war.html



Cover art collage by Jena Martin, using Solitude by Frederick Leighton 1890

Opening: The Confessions of St. Augustine, AD 401

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3296/3296-h/3296-h.htm



Interviews:

Dr. Henry Otgaar

Personal Website

Maastricht University 

Interview 9/21/2023



Dr. Sophie Scott

The Brain: 10 things you should know

X/Twitter

Interview 9/22/2023



Mentions:

Bart Simpson: Oh boy, time to repress another memory

⁠Season 14, Episode 17⁠



Dr. Scott mentions the 'Lost in the Mall' study

Context: https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/XQze2hIAAGYP8ckl

Beyond Lost in the Mall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOpMhYGPajU

Explaining memories in the movie Inside Out - where they went wrong:

https://theconversation.com/does-pixars-inside-out-show-how-memory-actually-works-43311



Cover art collage featuring Mnemosyne, also titled Lamp of Memory and Ricordanza.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881.

“We look at the world once, 

in childhood. The rest

is memory.”

Louise Gluck



Any and all background music from the free YouTube Audio Library

The Memory Hole Podcast theme is: A Great Darkness Approaches, Can You Feel It? by  ELPHNT

 

This is a bonus episode, to bring you more from my interview conducted on June 28 2023 with Dr. Frederick Crews, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California at Berkeley.

If you listened to Episode 4 you heard a lot from him about
Freud. But he had lots more to say during our interview and I don’t want to condemn those words to a file on my computer. Plus he doesn’t have a lot of accessible interviews on the internet. I believe his voice needs to be heard.



About the guest:

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



Episode cover art featuring Amalia Freud, Sigmund's mother.

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

----

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

----

Ms. Magazine Cover Story - Believe it. Cult ritual abuse exists

https://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 1993

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,979691,00.html

----

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

----



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 Foundation

http://www.fmsfonline.org/

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/





Any and all background music from the free YouTube Audio Library

The Memory Hole Podcast theme is: A Great Darkness Approaches, Can You Feel It? by  ELPHNT

 

All quotes come from the 1st Edition of The Courage to Heal; a guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse, 1988

For more audio background about the book, please check out the Conspirituality podcast's two brilliant episodes on this text.

Meredith Maran Interview 5/23/2023

Mark Pendegrast Interview 6/14/2023

Frederick Crews Interview 6/28/2023

The 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 Library

The Memory Hole Podcast theme is: A Great Darkness Approaches, Can You Feel It? by  ELPHNT

 

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 Barr

During 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.html

Meredith Maran Interview 5/23/23

Dan Rather CBS Evening News, March 1988, Television Archive

Playboy magazine comic, quoted from The Best Kept Secret, Florence Rush 1980

Quotes from: John Money, Wardell Pommeroy, Larry Constantine from The Best Kept Secret, Florence Rush 1980

More about Florence Rush

Love’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.shtml

Laura Pasley appeared in documentary: Making Memories, from the False Memory Foundation (Patrick Clancy)



Any and all background music from the free YouTube Audio Library

The Memory Hole Podcast theme is: A Great Darkness Approaches, Can You Feel It? by  ELPHNT

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-trailblazer-of-trauma-studies-asks-what-victims-really-want