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The Memory Hole Podcast
by Jena Martin
A bystander looks back at the mental health crisis known as the Recovered Memory Movement of the late 1980's and early 90's. What can that era teach us about psychic epidemics and human susceptibility to fashions? jenamartin.substack.com
Episodes
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S3. Episode 8: Mind Body Metaphors
For complete show notes please visit https://jenamartin.substack.com/s/the-memory-hole-podcast Featured guests: Gabi Jones https://gabisvintage.substack.com/ Edmund King https://substack.com/@paroxysms Terri Kapsalis https://www.terrikapsalis.net/ Jamieson Webster...
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S3. Episode 7: Making up people
For complete show notes, visit https://jenamartin.substack.com/s/the-memory-hole-podcast Referenced: Philosopher Ian Hacking https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ian-Hacking Social constructionism definition...
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S3. Episode 6: "A Marvelous Thing"
For complete show notes, please visit https://jenamartin.substack.com/s/the-memory-hole-podcast Referenced: The Baaken Museum https://thebakken.org Franz Anton Mesmer https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/mesmerized/ Batty's operation https://www.jstor.org/stable/44450540 Hysteria...
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S3.Episode 5: Capital H Hysteria
For complete show notes, visit https://jenamartin.substack.com/s/the-memory-hole-podcast Referenced: Carl Jung https://jungpage.org Frances Hill: A Delusion of Satan https://salemwitchmuseum.com/product/a-delusion-of-satan/ Elaine Showalter: Hystories...
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S3. Episode 4: The Image of the Hysteric
For complete show notes, please visit https://jenamartin.substack.com/s/the-memory-hole-podcast Referenced: The Yellow Wallpaper, full text https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescription/exhibitionAssets/digitalDocs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf Terri Kapsalis: Why I teach the Yellow...
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S3. Episode 3: If it's hysterical, it's historical
Referenced: Opening clip: Dream Crazier, 2019 Nike Ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mc06cIrvXE From Paralysis to Fatigue, Shorter https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/From-Paralysis-to-Fatigue/Edward-Shorter/9780029286678 The Babinksi reflex test https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519009/...
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S3. Episode 2: Bound by Culture
How much of our self-understanding is essentially untranslatable? References: Brian Eno on culture https://musicthoughts.com/t/114 https://www.edge.org/conversation/brian_eno-a-big-theory-of-culture DSM & Culture Bound Syndromes...
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S3. Episode 1: The Symptom Pool is Cerulean Blue
Topics include: Pegged, cuffed, jeans https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6pNd2muy6a/ Season 1 of the Memory Hole Podcast: The Courage to Heal https://www.memoryholepodcast.com/podcast/episode/2c348067/ep-3-suspicion-to-confirmation-the-promise-of-the-courage-to-heal Meredith Maran...
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The Memory Hole Podcast, Season 3: Trailer
Season 3 of The Memory Hole Podcast is coming soon. Tune in to hear from the voices featured here, and others: Ethan Watters https://substack.com/@ethanwatters1 Terri Kapsalis https://www.terrikapsalis.net Lisa Marchiano https://lisamarchiano.com This is a public episode. If you would like to...
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Listen now: My July 2025 conversation with Dan Savage
I’ve migrated my podcast to Substack, and am working out the kinks in that process. Which brings me to episode #975 of the Savage Lovecast, when Dan Savage and I discussed a caller’s question about repressed memories and sexual trauma. The photo promoting his podcast featured a series of phrases…
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S2. EP.5 Fictional Memories: Past, Present, and Future
Nicholas Dames https://nicholasdames.org/contact-2/ Pride and Prejudice 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 Gen Z is not...
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S2.EP4. The Mirage of the Zeitgeist
Twin Peaks 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 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this…
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S2. EP3. In Search of Lost Time
Featured in this episode: Kate St. Vincent Vogl 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…
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S2. EP2. Remember the Memory, Solve the Crime
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 Andromeda Romano-Lax Before I go to sleep by SJ Watson Kat Rosenfield 'Elizabeth…
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S2. EP1. Tell Me A Story
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…
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Trailer for Season 2
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 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with…
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Ep. 6: What did we learn?
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...
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Ep. 5: Forget Me Not; how we don't remember
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...
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Bonus: Crews on Freud
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...
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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....
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Ep. 3: "Suspicion to Confirmation"; the promise of The Courage to Heal
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...
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Ep. 2: “Every tear was an incest-driven tear”; child sexual abuse comes to light in the 1980s.
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…
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Ep. 1: Forgetting about remembering
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...
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Trailer
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.…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A bystander looks back at the mental health crisis known as the Recovered Memory Movement of the late 1980's and early 90's. What can that era teach us about psychic epidemics and human susceptibility to fashions?
jenamartin.substack.com
HOSTED BY
Jena Martin
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