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Reminder to listen if you have not yet. Discusses @KTHeaney intentionally ignorant & conspiratorial article for The Cut about the psycho-therapeutic junk science of repressed/recovered memory syndrome. You know, the same bunk that started the Satanic Panic & destroyed many lives. https://twitter.com/lennyflatley/status/1351732113779920900
I would not be surprised to find out that @KTHeaney has read Jeffery Masson book The Assault on Truth, and believes the lies within it. It’s had a revival in Womens Studies & “feminist psych” classes on Uni campuses over the last decade (at least). >>>
Masson is a Canadian trust fund baby who studied Sanskrit at the urging of his guru. He started wooing 2nd wave “radical feminist” (carceral separatist & religious right ally) Catherine MacKinnon when many carcerals were running activist campaigns on the field of psychology. >>>
Some feminists had valid concerns based on the malpractice their mothers experienced in therapy, but carcerals took an approach that actually increased abuse & malpractice in relation to the treatment of women in psychotherapy while simultaneously advocating against >>>
psychotherapy. Many of them, including Catherine Mackinnon, publicly proclaimed their belief in RMS junk science and Satanic Ritual Abuse conspiracies BUT they originally started peddling a bizarre conspiracy about Freud being forced to shelve his “Seduction Theory” by >>>
the almighty Patriarchy who wanted to keep the abuse of girls & women hidden. Again, this was a conspiratorial lie. Freud believed he was uncovering memories of childhood abuse in some of his hypnotherapy patients. Upon further inspection he realized he was unintentionally >>>
creating false memories in his patients by way of suggestion. He did experiments to make sure that this was the case & he documented his findings rather well. As Masson became more interested in a “feminist” approach to psychotherapy & got his license as a psychotherapist he >>>
latched onto this conspiracy about Freud and the Patriarchy and started pumping out articles, and eventually a book. He immediately received negative reviews from psychologists who had read Freud’s findings. https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft4w10062x&chunk.id=ch2 >>>
Something Masson deliberately misrepresented, even after getting access to his archives & reading the findings himself. 2nd wave radfems, many of them outside of the field of psych, were the only ones that gave him positive reviews. Because of this The Assault on Truth >>>
became a best seller & did a lot of damage. Masson was eventually, and rightfully, exposed as a liar and stripped of his license. He now writes the more unhinged variety of animal rights articles for the HuffPo. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Assault_on_Truth
