Strange Country Ep. 227: Recovered Memory Therapy

Strange Country

English - May 19, 2022 10:00 - 50 minutes - 70.1 MB - ★★★ - 173 ratings
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Our memories are fallible and malleable. In the 1980s and 1990s, recovered memory therapists convinced patients they had been sexually abused in some cases by satanic cults and repressed all memory of it. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss the trial of George Franklin who was convicted of murder based solely on the testimony of his daughter who “recovered” memories of witnessing him kill her childhood friend.

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

Cite your sources:

Carpentier, M. (2021, Oct. 8) Where Is Eileen Franklin, Whose Recovered Memories Convicted Her Father, Now? https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/where-is-elaine-franklin-lipsker-from-showtime-docuseries-buried-now

Guendelman, Y. and Pines, A. (2021). Buried. Showtime.

Ofshe, R. and Watters, E. (1994) Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy and Sexual Hysteria. Diane Pub. Co.

Romanova, N. (2021, Oct. 21) Eileen Franklin-Lipsker Now: what is she doing today? Blurred Reality. https://blurred-reality.com/eileen-franklin-lipsker-now-today/#:~:text=All%20we%20know%20about%20her,as%20long%20as%20she%20could.