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Podcast: The Grimerica Show
Episode: #579 - Dr. Richard Gallagher. "Demonic Foes: My Twenty-Five Years as a Psychiatrist Investigating Possessions, Diabolic Attacks, and the Paranormal."
Description: Interview starts at 34:50 Dr. Richard Gallagher joins- Psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatry joins us to chat about his great book "Demonic Foes: My Twenty-Five Years as a Psychiatrist Investigating Possessions, Diabolic Attacks, and the Paranormal." We chat about teasing apart the true possessions from mental illnesses or psychosis, the origins of some of these, and the various layers of Diabolic Attacks - possession, oppression, and infestation. We also get into some of the cases, the history, labelling occult practices, why exorcists try and force the demon to say it's name, cults, exaggerations of the phenomenon, fallen angels, new age practices...