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As a psychiatrist, I diagnose mental illness. Also help spot demonic possession
- yawpitch 4y ago> I’m a man of science […] I concluded that she was possessed. Ahh, the power of self-delusion. Spoiler alert: she definitely wasn’t possessed, but confirmation bias is strong with this author.
- bell-cot 4y agoFirst clear red flag for me - describing a person as speaking in several languages while possessed, which they supposedly didn't know otherwise. But there is no hint at whether the supposedly-possessed person knew what they were saying, or could understand the languages. Being a bit of a "human parrot" during a psychotic episode is not evidence of anything supernatural. Most of his other evidence for supernatural explanations involves "possessed" people doing cold readings ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading ), and other tricks that an old fashioned fortune teller / psychic might do. But there's no hint that the author (or the Roman Catholic Church, which he is consulting for when seeing these cases) brought in James Randi ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Randi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Randi ), or any other professional stage magician / psychic debunker.
- AnnoyedComment 4y ago[dead]