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Michelle remembers

Michelle Smith

Published in 1980, co-written by Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder and his psychiatric patient (and eventual wife) Michelle Smith. This best-seller was the first book written on the subject of Satanic ritual abuse and is an important part of the controversies beginning in the 1980s regarding sat...

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The book was noted as a co‑authored memoir that became hugely popular in the early 1980s and was later identified by many experts as the catalyst for the satanic panic era. The hosts highlighted its historical impact rather than offering a recommendation, referencing it as a key spark for that cultural phenomenon.

Episode: S6 "Satanic Panic" E5: The Many Martensvilles

Coauthored by Michelle and Lawrence Pazder, the memoir was described as hugely popular and later referenced as a key spark for the satanicpanic era.

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By 1980, Michelle and Lawrence Pazder had put a book out together called Michelle Remembers. And it was hugely popular.

Ken Lanning and just about every other expert, if asked to pinpoint the spark that set off the hellfire, will cite that book. Michelle Remembers.

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