Michelle Remembers

Michelle Remembers
First edition
Authors
LanguageEnglish
PublisherSt. Martin's Press
Publication date
November 1, 1980
Publication placeCanada
Media typePrint
ISBN978-0-671-69433-3

Michelle Remembers is a discredited 1980 book co-written by Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder and his psychiatric patient (and eventual wife) Michelle Smith.[1] A best-seller, Michelle Remembers relied on the discredited practice of recovered-memory therapy to make sweeping, lurid claims about Satanic ritual abuse involving Smith, which contributed to the rise of the Satanic panic in the 1980s.[2][3] While the book presents its claims as fact, and was extensively marketed on that basis at the time, no evidence was provided; all investigations into the book failed to corroborate any of its claims, with investigators describing its content as being primarily based on elements of popular culture and fiction that were popular at the time when it was written.[4][5]

  1. ^ Victor, Jeffrey S. (1993). Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend. Open Court Publishing Company. p. 13-14. ISBN 978-0-8126-9192-4.
  2. ^ Cara, Ed (November 3, 2014). "The Most Dangerous Idea in Mental Health". Pacific Standard.
  3. ^ Yuhas, Alan (March 31, 2021). "It's Time to Revisit the Satanic Panic". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 14, 2021 – via NYTimes.com.
  4. ^ Nathan, Debbie; Snedeker, Michael (2001) [1995]. Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt (2nd ed.). Lincoln, Nebraska: iUniverse. pp. 45–46. ISBN 0-595-18955-5.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Cuhulain was invoked but never defined (see the help page).