Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory | 
|  | | | Title: | Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory | | Author: | Lawrence Wright | | Publisher: | Vintage | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 25 April, 1995 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0679755829 / 9780679755821 | | List Price: | $13.00 | | You Save: | $2.60 | | Amazon Price: | $10.40 | |
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In 1988 Ericka and Julie Ingram began making a series of accusations of sexual abuse against their father, Paul Ingram, who was a respected deputy sheriff in Olympia, Washington. At first the accusations were confined to molestations in their childhood, but they grew to include torture and rape as recently as the month before. At a time when reported incidents of "recovered memories" had become widespread, these accusations were not unusual. What captured national attention in this case is that, under questioning, Ingram appeared to remember participating in bizarre satanic rites involving his whole family and other members of the sheriff's department.
Remembering Satan is a lucid, measured, yet absolutely riveting inquest into a case that destroyed a family, engulfed a small town, and captivated an America obsessed by rumors of a satanic underground. As it follows the increasingly bizarre accusations and confessions, the claims and counterclaims of police, FBI investigators, and mental health professionals. Remembering Satan gives us what is at once a psychological detective story and a domestic tragedy about what happens when modern science is subsumed by our most archaic fears.
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• Fascinating Modern History 30 March, 2008
I remember when this story broke, and I couldn't believe that a large Satanic cult was in such proximity to where I lived. With each new announcement, the story got more and more strange, but was always portrayed in the news as absolute fact. Only much later did it fade from the news. This story exposes the true insanity of the case, and how easy it was for an entire country to fall prety to complete madness in what it would believe.
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• Terrible 02 March, 2007
This is one of the worst books I have ever read, and I have read many. The underlying facts constitute a legally fascinating horror story, but there is no helpful glue between the facts and this author's contribution to the story. Moreover, aspects of the underlying story are just not credible. What really happened? This book gives us no clue.
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• Fascinating, Thorough And Utterly Convincing Book. 18 November, 2007
I have been a psychologist for 25 years and this is one of the most fascinating cases I've ever encountered, fully tragic, and beautifully documented in Lawrence Wright's outstanding book. I have purchased about 10 copies and given them to friends--such is my passion not just for this specific case but for what it reveals about this Satanic Ritual Abuse conspiracy theory that seized large elements of this country just a few years ago. (Thanks, in no small part to the irrepressible Geraldo Rivera, who stood up on one of the many shows he devoted to this nonsense and proclaimed it to be real.)
Furthermore, this story is as vivid a case as you'll find to illustrate the even broader tendency of people to be lead by strange sociological influences to believe all kinds of incredible things.
It's an indispensable and completely engrossing read. Lawrence Wright should have gotten the Pulitzer.
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• Remembering Satan 18 September, 2004
I think this book showed how one's mind can be influenced to remember this which perhaps never occurred. The uncertain way in which the main character spoke let me realize, that at first and maybe even finally he did not believe he had committed the acts attributed to him. I started out not liking the book but as I got further into it I realized how something like this could happen and the techniques that are used by professionals to get one to agree with the story they are being fed.
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• Wonderful Analysis! 21 December, 2007
Just an amazing review of the human psych. and how people can be influenced to say or things they have no concept of. Great Book! Lawrence Wright is amazing in his analysis and inside.
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