Exorcist

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Sep 19 07:43:29 PDT 2000


JKSCHW at aol.com wrote:


> In this year of our Lord 2000, the Archdiocese of Chicago has engaged a full time exorcist to "help those afflicted by the Evil One." I am not making this up. --jks

We need an empirical study of relative rates of suicide among patients with psychotic symptoms by those treated with exorcism and those treated with psychoanalysis. I believe (because of damage suits) it has now become financially fatal to treat schizophrenia with psychoanalysis, but perhaps some figures from the past could be gathered.

Carrol



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