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Michelle Remembers Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780671694333
ISBN: 0671694332
Label: Pocket
Manufacturer: Pocket
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1989-07-15
Publisher: Pocket
Studio: Pocket
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780671694333
ISBN: 0671694332
Label: Pocket
Manufacturer: Pocket
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1989-07-15
Publisher: Pocket
Studio: Pocket
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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: great book - highly recommended
Review: This book took tremendous courage to write. Its facts were verified by the publisher. It was attacked by those that defended accused child molesters.
from the book :
verification of the accuracy of the book "Michelle Remembers"by Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder, MD
from the book "A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER" pages xi - xiii"
"Dr. Pazder's credentials are impressive. He obtained his M.D. from the University of Alberta in 1961; his diploma in tropical medicine from the University Liverpool in 1962; and in 1968, his specialist certificate in psychiatry and his diploma in psychological medicine from McGill University. In 1971, he was made a fellow of Canada's Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is a member of three Canadian professional associations and of the American Psychiatric Association as well. He practiced medicine in West Africa and has participated in medical task forces and health organizations. He has been chairman of the Mental Health Committee of the Health Planning Council for British Columbia. A member of the staff of two hospitals in Victoria, British Columbia-the Royal Jubilee and the Victoria General-he is in private practice with a group of five psychiatrists. His professional papers include a study of the long-term effects of stress upon concentration-camp victims.
Two experienced interviewers journeyed to Victoria and talked to Dr. Pazder's colleagues, to the priests and the bishop who became involved in the case, to doctors who treated Michelle Smith when she was a child, to relatives and friends. From local newspaper, clergy, and police sources they learned that reports of Satanism in Victoria are not infrequent and that Satanism has apparently existed there for many years. Satanism in Western Canada flourished in many areas with activities far more ominous than some of the innocuous groups now found in parts of the United States who claim some connection with Satanism.
The source material was scrutinized. The many thousands of pages of transcript of the tape recordings that Dr. Pazder and Michelle Smith made of their psychiatric sessions were read and digested; they became the basis of this book. The tapes themselves were listened to in good measure, and the videotapes made of some of his sessions were viewed. Both the audio and video are powerfully convincing. It is nearly unthinkable that the protracted agony they record could have been fabricated."
Thomas B. Congdon, Jr New York April 22, 1980
http://members.aol.com/smartnews/satanic_ritual_abuse.htm
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: From a Pastor
Review: I pastor a church in the Dallas Texas area. It never ceases to amaze me how much satan will attack these writings to cover up his activities. My wife grew up around satanism and was an SRA victim growing up. She went on to practice witchcraft, but came to Christ around the age of 29. I assure you this book and others like this are very real. This is a must read for any Christian as we move into the end times.
J. Boyd
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Such bad fiction, such lasting consequences...
Review: If not for this horribly-written piece of fiction masquerading as truth, we never would've seen the "Satanic Panic" that gripped both the US and UK in the early 80s, resulting in homes broken, families destroyed, and innocent people ruined w/minimal evidence..even US media, normally derided by a vocal minority as being "too liberal", devoted considerable airtime to this phenomenon, particularly Geraldo Rivera (though he later apologized for his role in fanning the flames).
That said, the book itself is poorly written and often laughable (check out the alleged poetry supposedly from Satan himself)...not only that, but I question the motive for writing it, considering how Smith and Pazder became an item - despite both being married @ the time - and later wed...can we say "conflict of interest"? While Pazder is now dead and I hate to speak ill, his "recovered memories" technique has long since been discredited, leaving one to speculate as to whether or not he put these wild ideas in his patient's head. Besides, the evidence is overwhelmingly stacked against the "victim" here:
- She makes no mention of having a sister...yet one was located, and strongly denied all accusations made (as did her father)
- Despite the length of some rituals described in the books (some for weeks at a time), school records show no periods of extended absences
- A friend of her first husband (Doug Smith) said that she never showed any signs of emotional distress, etc. the whole time they were married
- One reviewer, elsewhere on this page, offered testimony to Michelle's apparent mental instability
Why do you think, once these revelations came to light, Smith-Pazder stopped giving interviews? Could it be because she had no leg to stand on anymore?
And to "a reader" (notice how those who defend these wild tales always remain anonymous? What are they hiding?), your arguments don't hold water...for starters, Laurel Wilson/Lauren Stratford/Laura Grabowski was exposed as a fraud way back in 1989, resulting in her alleged "true story" (Satan's Underground) being pulled from print, for many of the same reasons Smith-Pazder's story was debunked (no extended absences from school, history of mental problems, unmentioned relatives who quickly denied the events she described, etc.), to say nothing of her 1999 attempt at posing as a Holocaust survivor. Ditto Mike Warnke, whose career's been dead in the water since 1993 following a hard-hitting expose.
Speaking of which, it's not just the non-Christian sources you mentioned who are debunking these liars...Cornerstone magazine, a Christian publication, wrote the articles debunking both Stratford and Warnke's claims, and if you read their interview w/Anton LaVey (pays to know thine enemy), you'll see that true Satanism is far more subtle and nothing like what the Smith-Pazders of the world want you to believe.
As for your quote from Hitler (whose religion you mis-stated...he was a Christian, if in name only), I've got one for you from that great showman, PT Barnum: "There's a sucker born every minute".
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Review Summary: Dangerous fiction
Review: I'm astounded that this appalling and dangerous book is still in print; the publishers should be ashamed. This piece of fiction was dredged out of the mind of a disturbed young woman by her psychiatrist. Dr Pazder encouraged Michelle to believe her fantasies, thus damaging a disturbed person even more.
(They married after he was cited in divorce proceedings. In Britain that would be called professional misconduct; I don't know if that applies in the States.)
I call this book dangerous because it almost single-handedly sparked off the urban myth and moral panic of so-called "Satanic Ritual Abuse" spread by a small number of Evangelical Christians in the 1980s. Parents were falsely accused of abuse, and children were torn away from their families by over-zealous social workers who had been taken in by this dross, some not being returned for several years. Almost no one in authority has ever apologised.
If you want to know the truth about "Satanic Ritual Abuse", read Lure of the Sinister: The Unnatural History of Satanism by Gareth J Medway, or Speak of the Devil : Tales of Satanic Abuse in Contemporary England by Prof Jean la Fontaine, who researched and wrote the British Government's official report on the subject.
Then throw Michelle Remembers in the rubbish bin where it belongs.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: This book scared the HELL out of me.
Review: True? Fiction? I don't care. I have read every book on the True Crime shelf and watched every video on the Horror shelf. Nothing scared me like this one did. Anyone who says they weren't scared is a Satan worshipper.
Review Summary: great book - highly recommended
Review: This book took tremendous courage to write. Its facts were verified by the publisher. It was attacked by those that defended accused child molesters.
from the book :
verification of the accuracy of the book "Michelle Remembers"by Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder, MD
from the book "A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER" pages xi - xiii"
"Dr. Pazder's credentials are impressive. He obtained his M.D. from the University of Alberta in 1961; his diploma in tropical medicine from the University Liverpool in 1962; and in 1968, his specialist certificate in psychiatry and his diploma in psychological medicine from McGill University. In 1971, he was made a fellow of Canada's Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is a member of three Canadian professional associations and of the American Psychiatric Association as well. He practiced medicine in West Africa and has participated in medical task forces and health organizations. He has been chairman of the Mental Health Committee of the Health Planning Council for British Columbia. A member of the staff of two hospitals in Victoria, British Columbia-the Royal Jubilee and the Victoria General-he is in private practice with a group of five psychiatrists. His professional papers include a study of the long-term effects of stress upon concentration-camp victims.
Two experienced interviewers journeyed to Victoria and talked to Dr. Pazder's colleagues, to the priests and the bishop who became involved in the case, to doctors who treated Michelle Smith when she was a child, to relatives and friends. From local newspaper, clergy, and police sources they learned that reports of Satanism in Victoria are not infrequent and that Satanism has apparently existed there for many years. Satanism in Western Canada flourished in many areas with activities far more ominous than some of the innocuous groups now found in parts of the United States who claim some connection with Satanism.
The source material was scrutinized. The many thousands of pages of transcript of the tape recordings that Dr. Pazder and Michelle Smith made of their psychiatric sessions were read and digested; they became the basis of this book. The tapes themselves were listened to in good measure, and the videotapes made of some of his sessions were viewed. Both the audio and video are powerfully convincing. It is nearly unthinkable that the protracted agony they record could have been fabricated."
Thomas B. Congdon, Jr New York April 22, 1980
http://members.aol.com/smartnews/satanic_ritual_abuse.htm
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: From a Pastor
Review: I pastor a church in the Dallas Texas area. It never ceases to amaze me how much satan will attack these writings to cover up his activities. My wife grew up around satanism and was an SRA victim growing up. She went on to practice witchcraft, but came to Christ around the age of 29. I assure you this book and others like this are very real. This is a must read for any Christian as we move into the end times.
J. Boyd
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Such bad fiction, such lasting consequences...
Review: If not for this horribly-written piece of fiction masquerading as truth, we never would've seen the "Satanic Panic" that gripped both the US and UK in the early 80s, resulting in homes broken, families destroyed, and innocent people ruined w/minimal evidence..even US media, normally derided by a vocal minority as being "too liberal", devoted considerable airtime to this phenomenon, particularly Geraldo Rivera (though he later apologized for his role in fanning the flames).
That said, the book itself is poorly written and often laughable (check out the alleged poetry supposedly from Satan himself)...not only that, but I question the motive for writing it, considering how Smith and Pazder became an item - despite both being married @ the time - and later wed...can we say "conflict of interest"? While Pazder is now dead and I hate to speak ill, his "recovered memories" technique has long since been discredited, leaving one to speculate as to whether or not he put these wild ideas in his patient's head. Besides, the evidence is overwhelmingly stacked against the "victim" here:
- She makes no mention of having a sister...yet one was located, and strongly denied all accusations made (as did her father)
- Despite the length of some rituals described in the books (some for weeks at a time), school records show no periods of extended absences
- A friend of her first husband (Doug Smith) said that she never showed any signs of emotional distress, etc. the whole time they were married
- One reviewer, elsewhere on this page, offered testimony to Michelle's apparent mental instability
Why do you think, once these revelations came to light, Smith-Pazder stopped giving interviews? Could it be because she had no leg to stand on anymore?
And to "a reader" (notice how those who defend these wild tales always remain anonymous? What are they hiding?), your arguments don't hold water...for starters, Laurel Wilson/Lauren Stratford/Laura Grabowski was exposed as a fraud way back in 1989, resulting in her alleged "true story" (Satan's Underground) being pulled from print, for many of the same reasons Smith-Pazder's story was debunked (no extended absences from school, history of mental problems, unmentioned relatives who quickly denied the events she described, etc.), to say nothing of her 1999 attempt at posing as a Holocaust survivor. Ditto Mike Warnke, whose career's been dead in the water since 1993 following a hard-hitting expose.
Speaking of which, it's not just the non-Christian sources you mentioned who are debunking these liars...Cornerstone magazine, a Christian publication, wrote the articles debunking both Stratford and Warnke's claims, and if you read their interview w/Anton LaVey (pays to know thine enemy), you'll see that true Satanism is far more subtle and nothing like what the Smith-Pazders of the world want you to believe.
As for your quote from Hitler (whose religion you mis-stated...he was a Christian, if in name only), I've got one for you from that great showman, PT Barnum: "There's a sucker born every minute".
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Dangerous fiction
Review: I'm astounded that this appalling and dangerous book is still in print; the publishers should be ashamed. This piece of fiction was dredged out of the mind of a disturbed young woman by her psychiatrist. Dr Pazder encouraged Michelle to believe her fantasies, thus damaging a disturbed person even more.
(They married after he was cited in divorce proceedings. In Britain that would be called professional misconduct; I don't know if that applies in the States.)
I call this book dangerous because it almost single-handedly sparked off the urban myth and moral panic of so-called "Satanic Ritual Abuse" spread by a small number of Evangelical Christians in the 1980s. Parents were falsely accused of abuse, and children were torn away from their families by over-zealous social workers who had been taken in by this dross, some not being returned for several years. Almost no one in authority has ever apologised.
If you want to know the truth about "Satanic Ritual Abuse", read Lure of the Sinister: The Unnatural History of Satanism by Gareth J Medway, or Speak of the Devil : Tales of Satanic Abuse in Contemporary England by Prof Jean la Fontaine, who researched and wrote the British Government's official report on the subject.
Then throw Michelle Remembers in the rubbish bin where it belongs.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: This book scared the HELL out of me.
Review: True? Fiction? I don't care. I have read every book on the True Crime shelf and watched every video on the Horror shelf. Nothing scared me like this one did. Anyone who says they weren't scared is a Satan worshipper.