Michelle Remembers - Michelle Smith & Lawrence Pazder

Title: Michelle Remembers
Author: Michelle Smith & Lawrence Pazder, M.D.
Publisher: Sphere Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Edition: Sphere paperback edition, 1981. Bibliographic databases commonly catalogue ISBN 0722179588 as a 1982 Sphere edition.
ISBN: 0722179588

Condition: Second-hand. Good. The glossy red wrappers show moderate shelf wear, rubbing, edge and corner wear, and some creasing, with heavier wear around the spine and lower front corner. The binding remains intact and the pages show expected age toning. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

First published as a purported true account, Michelle Remembers recounts Michelle Smith’s therapy with psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder and the alleged recovery of childhood memories involving satanic ritual abuse. The book became one of the most notorious titles associated with the rise of the 1980s Satanic Panic and the wider controversy surrounding recovered memory.

Its claims were later heavily disputed and remain uncorroborated, making the book significant less as a reliable factual account than as a cultural document of twentieth-century occult panic, psychotherapy, moral fear and modern demonology. A striking and increasingly collectible title for readers interested in Satanic Panic history, controversial occult literature and the darker edges of modern social history.