Michelle Remembers (1980) was a book by Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder and his former patient Michelle Smith that recounted horrific experiences of ritual child abuse by a satanic cult in the 1950s. The book claimed that Smith had recovered suppressed memories of the abuse through therapy—a controversial practice that many experts think can create false memories. Though the book’s claims were unverified and disputed, it became a bestseller and is considered to be the inciting incident of the satanic panic.
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