References in Popular Culture
Implanted memories of incest is one of two central story arcs in Robert J. Sawyer's 1998 science fiction novel Factoring Humanity.
One episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit focused on a victim of recovered-memory therapy who falsely accused her father and then murdered him when he got out on bail. The girl was put in the hospital and the psychiatrist was arrested for causing the man's death.
Read more about this topic: Recovered-memory Therapy
Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed and drawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,—those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)