From Colin A. Ross, 1995: The writer is the brother of the man who co-founded the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. He is writing to WGBH about a program called 'Divided Memories', which you may have seen, that was supposed to be an investigation of memory. This letter also went to Congress and to the press, so it's a public letter. It's just unfortunate that the press, as far as I know, didn't pick it up.
'Gentlemen: Peter Freyd is my brother. Pamela Freyd is both my stepsister and sister-in-law. Jennifer and Gwendolyn [their daughters] are my nieces. There is no doubt in my mind that there was severe abuse in the home of Peter and Pam, while they were raising their daughters. Peter said (on your show, 'Divided Memories') that his humor was ribald. Those of us who had to endure it, remember it as abusive at best and viciously sadistic at worst. The False Memory Syndrome Foundation is a fraud designed to deny a reality that Peter and Pam have spent most of their lives trying to escape. There is no such thing as a False Memory Syndrome. It is not, by any normal standard, a Foundation. Neither Pam nor Peter have any significant mental health expertise. That the False Memory Syndrome Foundation has been able to excite so much media attention has been a great surprise to those of us who would like to admire and respect the objectivity and motives of people in the media. Neither Peter's mother (who was also mine), nor his daughters, nor I have wanted anything to do with Peter and Pam for periods of time ranging up to more than two decades. We do not understand why you would 'buy' such an obviously flawed story. But buy it you did, based on the severely biased presentation you made of the memory issue that Peter and Pam created to deny their own difficult reality. For the most part you presented very credible parents and frequently quite incredibly bizarre and exotic alleged victims and therapists. Balance and objectivity would call for the presentation of more credible alleged victims and more bizarre parents, While you did present some highly regarded therapists as commentators, most of the therapists you presented as providers of therapy were clearly not in the mainstream. While this selection of examples may make for much more interesting television, it certainly does not make for more objectivity and fairness. I would advance the idea that 'Divided Memories' hurt victims, helped abusers and confused the public. I wonder why you thought these results would be in the public interest that Public broadcasting is funded to support.


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By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
WILLIAM SCRANTON
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you...
PRINCE WILLIAM
What Bitcoin started is metamorphosing into something bigger: a 'crypto-tech'-driven economy...
WILLIAM MOUGAYAR
Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, w...
WILLIAM GOLDING
Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man...
WILLIAM GODWIN
Meeting all walks of life, it broadened your horizons, let's say that.
WILLIAM O'NEILL
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave t...
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND
These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The trouble with Hollywood is that too many of the top people responsible for pictures are too comfo...
WILLIAM WYLER
Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images t...
WILLIAM LAUD
The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.
WILLIAM BLIGH
I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we hap...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
... in an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mou...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand...
WILLIAM CAVENDISH
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND
Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for comp...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circul...
WILLIAM ZINSSER
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
WILLIAM ZINSSER
Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All the worlds a stage,And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their ent...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Glendower:I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur:Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by...
WILLIAM PENN
A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with t...
WILLIAM PENN
For we put the power in the people.
WILLIAM PENN
They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
WILLIAM PENN
I return you many thanks for the honour you have done me; but Europe is not to be saved by any singl...
WILLIAM PITT
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. Julius Caesar
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being ve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE