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

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

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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

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