Editing Lawrence Pazder (section)

==Background==
Pazder was born in [[Edmonton|Edmonton, Alberta]], on April 30, 1936,<ref name="Obit">{{cite web|date=March 2004|title=Dr. Lawrence Henry Pazder|url=https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/timescolonist/name/lawrence-pazder-obituary?pid=157445467|publisher=Times Colonist}}</ref> and completed his undergraduate medical training at the [[University of Alberta]] in 1961.<ref name="Obit"/><ref name="Cuhulain">{{cite web  | last = Cuhulain  | first = Kerr  | title = Michelle Remembers  | publisher = Pagan Protection Center  | date = July 8, 2002  | url = http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=cabc&c=whs&id=4349  | access-date = 9 June 2006  | archive-date = 25 May 2006  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060525161207/http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=cabc&c=whs&id=4349  | url-status = dead  }}</ref><ref name="Macleans">{{cite news  |first = Paul|last=Grescoe |title = Things That Go Bump in Victoria |publisher = [[Maclean's]] |date = October 27, 1980}}</ref>  He received a diploma in tropical medicine from the [[University of Liverpool]] in 1962,<ref name="Cuhulain"/> practicing medicine in [[Nigeria]] from 1962 to 1964.<ref name="Obit"/><ref name="Cuhulain"/><ref name="deYoung">{{cite news  |author-link = Mary de Young | first=Mary|last= de Young | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_e8ZkJBtz0EC | accessdate = October 20, 2008|title = The Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic |publisher = [[McFarland and Company]] |location=Jefferson, North Carolina|pages = 21–25 |year = 2004| isbn=9780786426898}}</ref> Pazder returned to Canada in 1964 and completed his psychiatric training at [[McGill University]] in 1968.<ref name="Obit"/><ref name="Cuhulain"/><ref name="Macleans"/> During his professional career, Pazder worked at two [[Victoria, British Columbia]] hospitals in addition to his private psychiatric practice.<ref name="Cuhulain"/> Pazder saw patients at his private psychiatric practice in Victoria until his sudden and unexpected death of heart failure in March 2004.<ref name="Obit"/><ref name="Cuhulain"/>

Pazder considered himself to be a devout [[Catholic]].<ref name="Cuhulain"/> As part of his church activities Pazder founded the Anawim Companions Society in Victoria to provide a day home for people in need as a result of poverty.<ref name="Obit"/> Pazder also had an interest in African religions and religious ceremonies.<ref name="Cuhulain"/><ref name="deYoung"/><ref name="Nathan">{{cite book |last1=Nathan|first1=Debbie |author-link=Debbie Nathan|first2=Michael|last2=Snedeker | title=Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JVVsAAAAIAAJ |year=1995 |publisher=[[Basic Books]] |isbn=0-87975-809-0 }}</ref>

Pazder and his first wife Marylyn had four children together and were married for many years, until he developed a relationship with his patient Michelle Smith. Court documents filed in the divorce proceedings indicated that between March 1977 and June 1979 Pazder disappeared with Smith (co-author of ''[[Michelle Remembers]]'') for lengthy periods of time.<ref name="Cuhulain"/> In 1979 after a rejected attempt at [[annulment]], Pazder divorced his first wife<ref name="Cuhulain"/> and later married his former patient and co-author, Smith.<ref name="Cuhulain"/><ref name="Macleans"/>

Pazder died in his home of [[Myocardial infarction|heart failure]] on March 4, 2004.<ref name = "Obit"/>