The Memory Hole Podcast
A look back at the mental health crisis known as the Recovered Memory Movement of the late 1980's and early 90's, from the perspective of a bystander. The podcast is 6-episodes in length and deals with a mature subject. It is not appropriate for children and some adults. Complete show notes can be found at www.memoryholepodcast.com Do you have an experience from the recovered memory movement you'd like to share? You can leave a voicemail at 1-612-888-3742, which may be used in a future episode.
Episodes
Nicholas Dames https://nicholasdames.org/contact-2/
Inside Out 2 - Nostalgia
Dan Chaon https://danchaon.com/
Olivia Gatwood https://www.oliviagatwood.com/
Kat Rosenfield https://katrosenfield.com
Elif Batuman The Elif Life: A Great Time for Personal Narrative
Recursion, a novel by Blake Crouch
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, by Jennifer Lynch
Katie Roiphe's Harper's article about incest-related fiction can be accessed here, on my website:
https://www.memoryholepodcast.com/about
A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley
Featured in this episode:
Andromeda Romano-Lax
-Andromeda's novel, now in paperback
The Tell by Amy Griffen
Remembering Molly - Immediate and delayed false memory formation after acute MDMA exposure. Kloft, Otgaar, Blokland, Toennes, Ramaekers. Eur Neuropsychopharmacology
The Courage to Heal, as featured in Season 1, Episode 3
Professor Patrick Bray
-Article: Proust and the neurosciences
-According to Marcel Proust: n...
Why do people still believe in repressed memories? It's a mystery.
In this episode:
The first detective novel: The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins and the Birth of Amnesia; Nicholas Dames
Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud
Before I go to sleep by SJ Watson
Tell Me A Story; an introduction to Season 2
Memory's misuse in storytelling
I made a second season because I wondered - why, if the recovered memory movement is over, do so many people still believe in repressed memories?
Season 2 is for you if:
-you love books, movies or otherwise escaping into a story
-you think about memory and forgetting
-you think about why we think about what we think about...
-you liked Season 1
-you like learning ...
Welcome back to the Memory Hole.
This trailer features interviews with authors Andromeda Romano-Lax and Kat Rosenfield.
Complete links to guests and sources will be provided in upcoming episode notes at www.memoryholepodcast.com
Show notes for Episode 6:
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:
Opening: The Confessions of St. Augustine, AD 401
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3296/3296-h/3296-h.htm
Interviews:
Dr. Henry Otgaar
Interview 9/21/2023
Dr. Sophie Scott
The Brain: 10 things you should know
Interview 9/22/2023
Mentions:
Bart Simpson: Oh boy, time to repress another memory
Dr. Scott mentions the 'Lost in the Mall' ...
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 inter...
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 Pende...
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 Kl...
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...
How on earth did I become interested in this topic? That's what this episode is about.
Interview with Meredith Maran, conducted 5/23/2023
You 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 Dance
The charm of prostitution: Risky Business
Coming Soon: The Memory Hole Podcast, a 6-episode series about the Recovered Memory Movement of the late 1980's and early 90's, told from the perspective of a bystander.
The Memory Hole Podcast is intended only for mature audiences and deals with topics of childhood sexual abuse and incest. Please do not listen with children.
If you or someone you know has experienced sexual abuse, please call RAINN (Rape, Abuse and In...
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