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  Michelle Smith (author) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Together with her psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder, she wrote the best selling book Michelle Remembers, describing her recovered memories of having survived, with the assistance of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, satanic ritual abuse by her parents (Virginia and Jack Proby) and neighbors in Victoria, BC.
Michelle and Dr. Pazder travelled to Rome to gain the support of the Pope and the Catholic church for her religious visions.
Michelle's religious claims were rejected by the Catholic Church and she was later excommunicated from the church.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michelle_Smith_(author)   (277 words)

  
 lawrence pazder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
"Michelle Remembers" chronicles Dr. Pazder's therapy with Michelle Smith, in which she allegedly recovered memories of Satanic Ritual Abuse.
Pazder's psychotherapy included hypnotism as well as urging his patient to convert to Catholism - which she did.
Pazder later married Michelle Smith - who was married to someone else during the therapy.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /Lawrence_Pazder.html   (166 words)

  
 iqexpand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Lawrence Pazder obtained his MD from the University of Alberta in 1961.
Lawrence Pazder and Michelle Smith Pazder (for she became his wife as well as his patient) related the sexual and other tortures inflicted on the young Michelle by a secret coven...
By Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder, M.D. The reader is invited upon and extraordinary journey into the memory and soul of a woman who, as a child, ws delivered into the hands of the Antichrist, the...
lawrence_pazder.iqexpand.com   (347 words)

  
 How the ritual abuse panic started
In it, Dr. Lawrence Pazder and Michelle Smith Pazder (for she became his wife as well as his patient) related the sexual and other tortures inflicted on the young Michelle by a secret coven of Satanists.
Dr. Pazder believed that his patient, whom he had been treating for depression, had repressed all memories of these events until, with his help, she was able to recover them by going into a trance-like state.
Lawrence Pazder is still in practice and declined requests for an interview.
members.shaw.ca /imaginarycrimes/howRAstarted.htm   (2784 words)

  
 Michelle Remembers- False "Survivor" Story of Satanic Abuse
Pazder's interpretation of this ceremony was that "...whoever these people were and whatever they were doing-ritual sex, apparently-they seemed to be moving toward some sort of controlled, deliberate frenzy..." This is another example of Dr. Pazder developing the story from Michelle's cues.
Pazder later states that by the time that Michelle made her disclosures, the police records of the accident had been destroyed due to their age, so he was unable to use them to corroborate Michelle's story.
Pazder subsequently decided that certain dates in 1954 and 1955 corresponded to the dates that Michelle was recalled memories on in 1976/77.
www.unsolvedmysteries.com /usm271496.html   (7407 words)

  
 Xeper.org - The Debunking of a Myth
Michelle Pazder is a plump, middle-aged woman with one daughter.
Pazder, who has since been consulted in more than 1,000 "ritual abuse" cases, was reluctant to speak to us at length.
Pazder himself admits he is working in areas that are difficult to define.
www.xeper.org /pub/lib/xp_lib_wh_DebunkingOfAMyth.htm   (1439 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Lawrence and Sue: We just wanted you and your family to know that our thoughts are with you at this time.
Pazder was always very nice to me even though we were all such a handfull growing up.
Dr. Larry Pazder was a wonderful and caring person, and his skills as a psychiatrist were appreciated by staff, clients, and other workers associated with Youth Forensic Psychiatric Services in B.C. We have lost a dynamic co-worker, but incomparable to Michelle's and the family's loss.
www.obituariestoday.com /BOC/PrintBOC.cfm?Obituary_ID=31367   (1169 words)

  
 IPT Journal - "Satan's Excellent Adventure in the Antipodes"
However, there has been no verification of these events, and it has been discovered that the alleged victim was attending school regularly, and was even photographed for the school yearbook, at a time when she was supposedly locked in a basement for months.
Pazder had an interest in exorcism and had studied West African witchcraft rituals, some of which involved being buried in a pit — it is worth noting that burial or entombment was to become one of the frequently reported components of the SRA scenario.
Pazder's influence was soon to be exercised in raising the satanism scenario in one of the most notorious investigations and trials in America, centering on the McMartin Preschool.
www.ipt-forensics.com /journal/volume10/j10_9.htm   (6310 words)

  
 satanic ritual abuse
In the 1980s there was a panic regarding SRA, which was largely triggered by a fictional book called Michelle Remembers (1980) by Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder, Ph.D. The book was published as fact but has subsequently been shown to be a hoax by at least three independent investigators.
It is likely that her reports of abuse were “the hysterical ravings of an uncontrolled imagination” (Allen and Midwinter 1990).
Pazder coined the expression 'ritual abuse.' He was consulted in more than one thousand SRA cases and can take credit for contributing greatly to one of the largest witch-hunts in recent history.
skepdic.com /satanrit.html   (1166 words)

  
 Bartholomew's notes on religion
The most notorious of these was the Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder (who died in 2004), who claimed to have recovered memories of Satanism from his patient Michelle Smith and published them as Michelle Remembers in 1980.
Smith went on to divorce her husband and marry Pazder, which shows just what kind of a professional he was.
that Pazder was brought in as a special consultant at McMartin, which he claimed was part of an international conspiracy.
blogs.salon.com /0003494/2006/01/09.html   (1076 words)

  
 Satanic ritual abuse and McMartin: a global village rumour
In Michelle Remembers, the patient Michelle Smith, writing with the help of her Canadian psychiatrist Dr Lawrence Pazder (whom she eventually married), gives a vivid account of how she was supposedly imprisoned during her childhood by a satanic cult.
The members of the cult supposedly tortured her, forced her to defaecate on a crucifix, raped and sodomised her with candles, butchered still-born babies in front of her and imprisoned her naked in a snake-filled cage.
As Pazder’s ideas gradually coalesced with general anxieties about religious cults and sexual abuse, the notion of a large-scale conspiracy to abuse children began to seem plausible.
www.richardwebster.net /speakofthedevil.html   (2392 words)

  
 Richard Wurmbrand - Marx & Satan, pp 102-112
Lawence Pazder, in Michelle Remembers,[1] gives us the exact words of a highly secret Satanist mass, obtained through regression analysis from a girl who had attended such some twenty years before.
It is worth noting with irony that on the grave of Lenin's father there stood a cross with the inscription "The light of Christ illuminates all" and a multitude of Bible verses.
Lawrence Pazder, Michelle Remembers (New York: Condon & Littes, 1982).
www.talkaboutreligion.com /group/alt.christnet/messages/822923.html   (2355 words)

  
 Witchvox Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Pazder's ex wife theorizes that the reason that certain Catholic festival dates correspond with significant disclosures by Michelle is that Michelle was trying extra hard on those dates to draw Lawrence away from participation in Church activities with his wife and family.
Pazder goes on to claim that the objective of ritualistic abuse is to turn the child who is the victim "against God".
Pazder concludes by telling the seminar attendees that "We need to stand up with [survivors] and believe what they are telling us even if we don't understand." Never mind the lack of evidence he is saying; just believe.
www.witchvox.com /va/dt_article.html?a=cabc&id=4351   (4010 words)

  
 WM3.org - Case Information
She describes in lurid detail the sacrifices and the rituals, and her doctor Lawrence Pazder believes every word and encourages more and more.
She claims to have been molested by Satan himself (who spoke in rhyme), and that her involvement with the cult began when her mother was forced to hand her over to the Satanists for use in their most important ritual.
Smith and Pazder were eventually married, and her stories were eventually debunked.
www.wm3.org /live/sp/books.php   (300 words)

  
 the alt.satanism FAQ - faqs.org.ru
Michelle SMITH and Lawrence PAZDER, _Michelle Remembers_, (***:***, 1980) The book which largely started the SRA snowball, detailing therapist's experience with an MPD patient he later married.
Lawrence WRIGHT, _Remembering Satan_, A book-length treatment of the Ingram case of Thurston County, Washington.
Lawrence WRIGHT, "Remembering Satan," _ The New Yorker_ 69, 24 May 1993, pp.
faqs.org.ru /en/religion/religions/satanism/faqngp-3.htm   (2213 words)

  
 Satan's Exellent Adventure in the Antipodes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Pazder had an interest in exorcism and had studied West African witchcraft rituals, some of which involved being buried in a pit: it is worth noting that burial or entombment was to become one of the frequently reported components of the SRA scenario.
Incidentally, it was Pazder in 1981 who coined the term ‘ritual abuse’ (Nathan and Snedeker:50).
Pazder’s influence was soon to be exercised in raising the satanism scenario in one of the most notorious investigations and trials in America, centring on the McMartin Preschool.
vip.cybercity.dk /~ccc44406/smwane/Antipodes.html   (6174 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In the book, Michelle and her psychiatrist recount how in the course of her continued therapeutic sessions as an adult, she recalled involvement in a Satanic cult in Vancouver, BC when she was five years old.
Let me quote Arthur Lyons for some additional material on Michelle Smith: "It seems that, while undergoing intense psychotherapy with Dr. Pazder for an assortment of emotional disorders, Smith began to recall repressed childhood memories, which Pazder concluded were the source of her problems.
What she revealed to him was that, as a five-year-old in Vancouver, she had been offered up by her mother to a Satanic cult and forced to participate in unspeakable rites.
www.textfiles.com /occult/OTO/cawr_4.txt   (3152 words)

  
 Michelle Remembers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Furthermore Pazder either does not mention or is unaware that the Yorubans had two other systems of divination: One is the Table of Ifa, also known as Opon Ifa.
He gives it to her, including his belief in the international Satanic conspiracy myth, and his belief that Satanism is older than Christianity (a neat trick, considering it was the Church who invented the concept).
It all has something to do with certain special days in the Christian Church..." A moment ago she acted surprised when Pazder told her his suspicions that the cult members were Satanists.
www.witchvox.com /protection/kerr_pazder1.html   (7786 words)

  
 The Dark Tunnels of McMartin Roland C. Summit
Lotto traces the origin of ritual cult abuse survivor stories to 1980, with the patient/therapist collaboration of Michelle Remembers.(2) Such attribution of cause and effect is no less magical than assigning the power of spring time to the first crocus.
And how is it relevant that Dr. Pazder divorced his wife and married his former patient, or that the psychologist who "interrogated" Ileana Fuster before her testimony in the Country Walk prosecution had himself been imprisoned for sexual assault of his clients?
Similarly, the television producers brought Dr. Pazder to Los Angeles not to introduce the concept of satanic ritual abuse but to *address* it, since it was by then common knowledge among journalists that children and parents were describing unearthly obscenities.
www.geocities.com /kidhistory/mcmartin.htm   (7534 words)

  
 << Journals Division of UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS >>   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Although the Library of Congress did not assign the term "ritual abuse" as a subject heading until 1995, one form or another of that phrase was in use since the early 1980s.
Nathan (1995) reported that the term "ritual abuse" was first used by therapist Lawrence Pazder at an American Psychological Association meeting in 1981 (pp.
It is common for there to be a time lag between a term being coined and adoption of a standard subject heading, and some common terms are never adopted for use in databases.
www.utpjournals.com /jour.ihtml?lp=simile/issue10/fisterfulltext.html   (8007 words)

  
 Theology Today - Vol 51, No. 3 - October 1994 - ARTICLE - Satanism: Bunk or Blasphemy?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The 1980 publication and 1985 paperback republication of Michelle Remembers, by Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder virtually inaugurated the present chapter in the history of Satanism's significance.
The book reports what Michelle told her psychiatrist, coauthor Pazder, regarding her own experience growing up in a Satanic cult of the 1950s on Vancouver Island.
Pazder helped make them known to Michelle and then, through the book, to the world.
theologytoday.ptsem.edu /oct1994/v51-3-article4.htm   (5732 words)

  
 AMERICA'S MAGIC CULT OF IGNORANCE
Under hypnosis, Smith told her Toronto-based hypnotherapist (and now husband), Lawrence Pazder, that her parents had been part of a robed satanic cult that kept her locked in a cage with spiders and snakes, ritually sacrificed infants and once sliced a fetus in half and rubbed it over her body.
Smith, who grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, in the early 1950s, further contended that the cult leaders had sewn horns and a tail onto her, and that once she was being tortured by Satan himself but was rescued by Jesus and Mary.
Police investigations turned up no graves and no missing babies, and an analysis of Pazder's methods led some observers to conclude that his questioning had steered Smith into "remembering" events that might not be real.
www.caic.org.au /fms-sra/cult-of-ignorance.htm   (1198 words)

  
 Lawrence Pazder - TheBestLinks.com - Psychiatrist, 1980, Hypnotism, Satanic ritual abuse, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Lawrence Pazder - TheBestLinks.com - Psychiatrist, 1980, Hypnotism, Satanic ritual abuse,...
Lawrence Pazder, Psychiatrist, 1980, Hypnotism, Satanic ritual abuse, Michelle...
Pazder's Obituary - contains basic biographical information (http://www.obituariestoday.com/Obituaries/ObitShow.cfm?Obituary_ID=31367)
www.thebestlinks.com /Lawrence_Pazder.html   (177 words)

  
 Satanic Panic - Acadine Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Satanic Panic was a period between the mid 1970's and early 1980's when fundamentalist christians espoused a conspiracy theory that Satanism was spreading everywhere using games such as Dungeons and Dragons and heavy metal music.
Allegations of satanic ritual abuse became common after Lawrence Pazder published his book, Michelle Remembers, in which his wife and client, Michelle Smith gives a harrowing tale of her supposed abuse in a satanic cult.
This book is commonly referenced as the beginning of the SRA hoax.
www.acadine.org /index.php/Satanic_Panic   (148 words)

  
 The Devil Made Me Do It: Adolescent Attraction to Satanism
By this definition, [I have been] unable to identify even one documented satanic murder in the United States" (emphasis in original).
These stories seem to have originated in 1980 with the publication of Michelle Remembers (Smith and Pazder 1980); other accounts include Suffer the Child (Spencer 1989) and Satan's Underground (Stratford 1988).
As with claims about stranger abduction of children for satanic purposes, "occult survivor" stories suffer from the lack of corroborating evidence.
justice.uaa.alaska.edu /research/articles/9309satn.html   (6339 words)

  
 Charles Manson, Son of Sam and the Process Church of the Final Judgement
And incredibly, this idea had been given credence by the very people whom many of us had been taught to trust all of our lives, including law enforcement officials, politicians and religious leaders, some who had become self-styled “experts” on satanism and alleged “occult” crimes.
In this book, Pazder claimed that when Michelle was a child, she had been sexually abused by satanists and that her memory of the abuse had been repressed in her mind until she had undergone specialized therapy provided by Pazder.
(Pazder is credited for being the person who originally coined the phrase “ritual abuse”).
www.labyrinth13.com /Process.htm   (2747 words)

  
 Ungodly Fear: Fundamentalist Christianity and the Abuse of Power   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In 1980 a book was published by Michelle Smith and Dr Lawrence Pazder called Michelle Remembers.
The book was apparently an account of the sufferings by the author at the hands of a Satanic cult, but it was soon discovered that much of the content derived from Dr Pazder's studies of African native ritual.
As the paranoia gathered pace, dozens of court cases were heard in the United States in the early 1980s based on allegations which closely duplicated those in Pazder's book.
cargo.ship-of-fools.com /Bulletin/UngodlyFear/Extracts/Abuse2/Abuse5.html   (638 words)

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