The Memory Hole Podcast

Jena Martin

Booking Overview

This podcast examines the recovered memory era and broader “psychic epidemic” dynamics—what makes populations susceptible to medical/psychological fashions. It’s a strong fit for PR pitches around mental health history, psychology, culture, and research integrity, with guests often drawn from academia and published authors.

Metrics

Episodes: 20

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Instagram: 54 followers

30s Ad: 34 - 39, 60s Ad: 41 - 45

Contact Information

jenamartin@substack.com

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Host

Jena Martin - Host and writer contextualizing the late-1980s/early-1990s Recovered Memory Movement through historical and psychological lenses, with an emphasis on how “psychic epidemics” and human susceptibilit...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Published authors (popular or academic), psychologists/psychiatrists or other mental-health researchers, university faculty, science/humanities scholars on culture/medicine, and occasionally media creators with relevant domain authority.

Required Achievements:

Authored books or long-form research on memory/diagnostic history, culture-bound syndromes, or mental-health controversies, University faculty appointments or research leadership, Public-facing journalism or widely read scholarship, Expert commentary in academic or mainstream venues

Recent Guest Discussions

Jamieson Webster - History/cultural Analysis Relevant To Hysteria And Psychoanalytic/historical Framings

Terri Kapsalis - Recovered Memory Movement-era Themes And/or Cultural-historical Aspects Of Hysteria/credulity

Jonathon Tsou - Humanities/medicine Perspectives On Culture-bound Forms Of Experience

Nicholas Haslam - Culture/psychology Frameworks Relevant To Bound Syndromes And Classification

Ethan Watters - Psychological/cultural Transmission Of Symptoms And Diagnostic Narratives

Recent Topics

Mental Health, Psychology, History, Culture, Memory, Epidemiology, Pseudoscience, Psychiatry, Susceptibility, Research

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

The Memory Hole Podcast

S3. Episode 4: The Image of the Hysteric

May 15, 2026

For complete show notes, please visit https://jenamartin.substack.com/s/the-memory-hole-podcastReferenced:The Yellow Wallpaper, full texthttps://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescription/exhibitionAssets/digitalDocs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdfTerri Kapsalis: Why I teach the Yellow Wallpaperhttps://lithub.com/author/terri-kapsalis/A Clinical Lesson at the Salpetriehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clinical_Lesson_at_the_Salpêtrière#/media/File:Une_leçon_clinique_à_la_Salpêtrière.jpgDr...

S3. Episode 3: If it's hysterical, it's historical

May 08, 2026

Referenced:Opening clip: Dream Crazier, 2019 Nike Ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mc06cIrvXEFrom Paralysis to Fatigue, Shorterhttps://www.simonandschuster.com/books/From-Paralysis-to-Fatigue/Edward-Shorter/9780029286678The Babinksi reflex testhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519009/Dr. Jean Martin Charcothttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3064755/Hysteria Beyond Freud, Gilmanhttps://www.ucpress.edu/books/hysteria-beyond-freud/paperDora, An Analysis of a Case of Hysteriahttps://...

S3. Episode 2: Bound by Culture

May 01, 2026

How much of our self-understanding is essentially untranslatable?References:Brian Eno on culturehttps://musicthoughts.com/t/114https://www.edge.org/conversation/brian_eno-a-big-theory-of-cultureDSM & Culture Bound Syndromeshttps://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/psychology/culture-bound-syndromesLumping and Splittinghttps://jenamartin.substack.com/p/nosologyFeatured guests:W.David Marx, authorhttp://www.neomarxisme.comLisa Marchiano, Jungian analyst and authorhttps://lisamarchiano.comEthan Wa...

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