Michelle Remembers

Type: Book

As of November 2026, Michelle Remembers has been mentioned in one podcast episode on Behind the Bastards (Nov 2025). Discussed as a book that influenced the satanic panic and modern politics.

Michelle Remembers is a 1980 book co-written by Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder and his psychiatric patient Michelle Smith. 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. While the book presents its claims as fact, and was extensively marketed on that basis at the time, no evidence was provided; all inv