Dr. Jennifer J. Freyd, Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Oregon, first publicly accused her parents at a 1993 mental health conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Australian Fiona Barnett wrote about Jennifer Freyd’s parents, Peter & Pamela Freyd, in her book Eyes Wide Open.
Jennifer Freyd — and especially her research on Betrayal Trauma, Institutional Betrayal, and Institutional Courage — is central to my case at UC Irvine.
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Fiona Barnett wrote:
PETER & PAMELA FREYD
The Freyds were stepsiblings who married. They coined the term ‘false memory syndrome’ in response to being accused of sexually abusing their daughter Dr Jennifer Freyd, a University of Oregon Psychology Professor who outed them at a 1993 mental health conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan. On 17 April 1995, Peter Freyd’s brother William wrote an open letter to WGBH-Boston, criticising the TV station’s inexplicable bias in favour of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation:
‘There is no doubt in my mind that there was severe abuse in the home of Peter and Pam… The False Memory Syndrome Foundation [FMSF] is a fraud designed to deny a reality that Peter and Pam have spent most of their lives trying to escape.’
Barnett, Fiona. Eyes Wide Open: CIA Child Trafficking | MK-ULTRA in Australia | Ritual Abuse & Mind Control | Trauma-Based Forced Dissociation | Trauma-Focussed Integration. Lockdown ed. Brisbane, QLD: Fiona Barnett, 2020, p. 53. Accessed via PDF mirror at Cathy Fox Blog, March 15, 2026.
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