Demonic Foes: My Twenty-Five Years as a Psychiatrist Investigating Possessions, Diabolic Attacks, and the Paranormal Cover
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Demonic Foes My Twenty-Five Years as a Psychiatrist Investigating Possessions, Diabolic Attacks, and the Paranormal

Richard Gallagher M.D.

The world’s leading psychiatric authority on demonic possession delves into the hidden world of exorcisms and his own transformation from cynic to believer over the course of his twenty-five-year career. Successful New York psychiatrist Richard Gallagher was skeptical yet intrigued when a hard-nose...

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It was recommended as a good read for those fascinated by the topic of demonic possession, with the author originally approaching the topic with skepticism before witnessing unusual phenomena.

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I encourage everyone to read his book, Demonic Foes. If you're fascinated with this topic and you want a really good beach read for people to walk by and see you reading, that's a good one.

— Episode: The Exorcist Files, with Ryan Bethea

Episode: The Exorcist Files, with Ryan Bethea

It was recommended as a good read for those fascinated by the topic of demonic possession, with the author originally approaching the topic with skepticism before witnessing unusual phenomena.

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I encourage everyone to read his book, Demonic Foes. If you're fascinated with this topic and you want a really good beach read for people to walk by and see you reading, that's a good one.

He is a very eminent psychiatrist... he studied classics and graduated Phi Beta Kappa... He came into this extraordinarily skeptical.

He's like, look, most of these patients are not spiritually possessed. That is not the case. But he's like, but as a psychiatrist of practicing for decades, I can look at someone and I know the difference between schizophrenia, right? And delusions and someone who has bruises appearing on their body out of nowhere, who is exhibiting incredible strength and speaking Russian all of a sudden when they're not Russian and have no expertise. Like, I know the difference.

Episode: The Exorcist Files, with Ryan Bethea

It was recommended as a good read for those fascinated by the topic of demonic possession, and the author was described as having initially been skeptical but changed his views after witnessing unusual phenomena with patients.

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I encourage everyone to read his book, Demonic Foes.

If you're fascinated with this topic and you want a really good beach read for people to walk by and see you reading, that's a good one.

He is a very eminent psychiatrist... studied classics and graduated Phi Beta Kappa...

He came into this extraordinarily skeptical. And it was only after witnessing some phenomena where patients started speaking languages that there's no... I mean, you don't just pick up Aramaic...

He's like, look, most of these patients are not spiritually possessed. That is not the case. But he's like, but as a psychiatrist of practicing for decades, I can look at someone and I know the difference between schizophrenia...

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