notion: demon possession proclamations and psychiatric disorder diagnoses have the similar utility of conferring a socially acceptable handle on one’s social dysfunction, as defined by/relative to your culture
I dont have much to add but this sounds very humanistic and plausible, do you know if possessions were treated as such in the past?
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i think they are treated so currently, or at least i have heard accounts by converts to christianity about being assailed by demons and the power of christ/believe in him delivering them from it. maybe that doesnt exactly reinforce my notion. let me research a bit
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only if the exorcism worked
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probably even if they didn’t work, from the perspective of the exorcist. maybe especially?
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