Wikipedia had this to say about The Rosenhan Experiment, conducted by psychologist David L. Rosenhan in the early 1970s, "(The Rosenhan Experiments) investigated the validity of psychiatric diagnoses by examining how mental health professionals identified mental illness. In this controversial study, eight individuals without any psychiatric history feigned auditory hallucinations to gain admission to twelve different mental hospitals across the United States. Despite providing truthful information about their lives and claiming to no longer hear voices, all participants were diagnosed with severe mental disorders, primarily schizophrenia, and remained hospitalized for an average of nineteen days. The study highlighted significant issues within psychiatric institutions, such as the staff's limited interaction with patients and their tendency to misinterpret normal behavior as symptomatic of mental illness. All but one were released only after agreeing to a mental illness diagnosis and medication, which they flushed down the toilet." In 1976, a young German woman named Anneliese Michel died after 67 Catholic Exorcisms. The concluded cause of death by the authorities was starvation. Anneliese didn't think the doctors knew what they were doing, and she knew if she shared too much with them, she would end up in the insane asylum. Her parents and two priests were later convicted of negligent homicide for not turning her over to the state institution, where she would have been force-fed and medicated. What is Creator's perspective on the "conflict" between the secular and religious responses to obsession, possession, and its symptoms? Were the parents and priests "wrong" in not enlisting the help of secular doctors? What can Creator tell us?

DWQA Questions › Category: Spirit Possession › Wikipedia had this to say about The Rosenhan Experiment, conducted by psychologist David L. Rosenhan in the early 1970s, “(The Rosenhan Experiments) investigated the validity of psychiatric diagnoses by examining how mental health professionals identified mental illness. In this controversial study, eight individuals without any psychiatric history feigned auditory hallucinations to gain admission to twelve different mental hospitals across the United States. Despite providing truthful information about their lives and claiming to no longer hear voices, all participants were diagnosed with severe mental disorders, primarily schizophrenia, and remained hospitalized for an average of nineteen days. The study highlighted significant issues within psychiatric institutions, such as the staff’s limited interaction with patients and their tendency to misinterpret normal behavior as symptomatic of mental illness. All but one were released only after agreeing to a mental illness diagnosis and medication, which they flushed down the toilet.” In 1976, a young German woman named Anneliese Michel died after 67 Catholic Exorcisms. The concluded cause of death by the authorities was starvation. Anneliese didn’t think the doctors knew what they were doing, and she knew if she shared too much with them, she would end up in the insane asylum. Her parents and two priests were later convicted of negligent homicide for not turning her over to the state institution, where she would have been force-fed and medicated. What is Creator’s perspective on the “conflict” between the secular and religious responses to obsession, possession, and its symptoms? Were the parents and priests “wrong” in not enlisting the help of secular doctors? What can Creator tell us?

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Nicola Staff asked 3 weeks ago

The fact of the matter is that when it comes to the phenomenon of spirit possession, both the church and mainstream medicine fall short in terms of ideal effectiveness but for differing reasons. Mainstream medicine denies the existence of the paranormal, it assumes signs of spirit possession are just a particular form of mental delusions and a psychiatric condition alone, for some unknown cause, but a property of a defective mental apparatus. The church, on the other hand, believes in the existence of demonic beings that can intrude on people and gain control of them, causing them torment and inducing them to act out, often with extreme emotion and loss of control, if not handled deftly by an exorcist and others assisting. The lack of knowledge and sophistication on the part of exorcists, in taking on what can be a quite serious matter with high hopes but only human resources to a large extent, will mean that they will only be partially effective and perhaps not at all for severe cases. This is why repeat episodes of attempts to exorcise dark spirits become necessary, because the techniques being used might be completely ineffective to begin with, and the efforts to commandeer and command only aggravate what is a dangerous situation and things can get out of hand. If not completed successfully, there will be much trauma to the human victim in the course of the extremes of emotion they are subjected to, both from being out of control themselves and in a state of agitation and fear, as well as being put more greatly in the line of fire and getting targeted by the possessing spirits for a real going over energetically, to torment them as a punishment. So getting the medical community and the church together, frankly, has been all but disallowed because of the manipulations by the interlopers in their strategy of divide and conquer. They don't want one discipline to be learning and benefitted by another so will strive to drive a wedge between them to keep them separate deliberately and in the dark about potential progress and opportunities that could be gained through a sharing of perspectives rather than the negation of one discipline by the other and vice versa. So what is wrong is the way humanity has been manipulated to keep people complacent and in the dark much of the time so little progress is made, in a meaningful fashion, to work on important issues and get to the bottom of what is truly going on—that is why things have not advanced much over the ages in dealing with paranormal phenomena.