Rachel Brown
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1,264 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 5 Aug
Rachel Brown’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But she passed away in 2019 at the age of 89.
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She spent seven years working with Dr. Pickens to try to answer this question for herself.
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Here's Dr. Pickens again.
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The stabbing remained a big mystery.
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At first, Ruth couldn't remember doing it at all, but then the memories started to clear up.
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She remembered being in the parking lot, opening her car door, and struggling.
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Except this time, instead of remembering a man trying to kill her, she was all alone.
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Ruth saw her own hands holding a knife, her own voice telling herself.
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She was able to piece the memories back together.
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It really was her.
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And now she was ready to acknowledge another truth.
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Yes, because then that's actually the recognition that this is what happened to herself.
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When she would dissociate, she would split herself into parts, the little girl, the poet, and Ruth.
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Being able to speak about her childhood trauma in the first person meant she had reintegrated these pieces of herself and fully recovered these repressed memories.
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The idea of repressed memories actually dates back to Sigmund Freud.
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He thought therapy could help people uncover memories they'd buried in childhood.
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But he cast that idea aside, worrying he'd planted false memories in his patients.
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The idea of repressed memories got a second wind in the 1970s and 80s.
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There were hit books coming out about people recovering horrific memories from their childhoods.
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Then, the satanic panic began.
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