Goodreads asked Mark Pendergrast:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Mark Pendergrast My most recent in-print book is MEMORY WARP: HOW THE MYTH OF REPRESSED MEMORY AROSE AND REFUSES TO DIE. Back in the 1990s, I wrote a book about the then-raging debate over repressed memories of child abuse (mostly sexual abuse). Most people think that books such as mine, plus lawsuits against offending psychotherapists, put a stop to this insanity. But that isn't true. The epidemic continues, though it went "underground." But most people still believe in this discredited pseudoscientific theory first introduced by Sigmund Freud. Hence the need for MEMORY WARP, which is fascinating, if I do say so myself, for its exploration of how human memory really works, and how malleable it can be.

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