DWQA Questions › Tag: David L. RosenhanFilter:AllOpenResolvedClosedUnansweredSort byViewsAnswersVotesWikipedia 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?ClosedNicola asked 16 hours ago • Spirit Possession7 views0 answers0 votesAnthropologist Felicitas Goodman wrote The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel and the book How About Demons? Possession and Exorcism in the Modern World. Dr. Goodman was convinced that Anneliese was a victim of demonic possession, most likely brought about by a curse rumored to be placed on Anneliese prior to birth solicited and paid for by a woman jealous of Anneliese’s mother. Goodman said that in her experience, nearly all these kinds of possessions were the result of a powerful curse placed by powerful practitioners of the dark arts. Anneliese was a gentle, kind, intelligent, thoughtful individual who seemed like the last person on Earth to “deserve” what happened to her. So much so, in fact, that she and her family came to believe that her plight and suffering were somehow sacrificial and for the benefit of others. Because otherwise, it didn’t make sense to them. Dr. Goodman noted that in Haiti, it is believed that an exorcism will succeed only if the exorcist is more powerful than the one placing the curse. Was this the case with Anneliese as well? Did the exorcisms fail, and Anneliese died because the priests were not as “powerful” as the one who placed the curse? What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 16 hours ago • Spirit Possession7 views0 answers0 votesThe 67 Catholic Exorcisms said by the two priests involved for Anneliese brought at best temporary relief, but in the end were considered a failure due to her unanticipated and tragic death at just 23 years old. Goodman wrote: “Exorcism is basically designed to help the afflicted person to gain ritual control over the molesting entities … Unruly spirits (also) need to and indeed can be trained. Without ritual intervention, the undoing of such a pattern is extremely difficult, especially so if the alter is evil or, in religious terms, if the possessing entity has demonic powers. … It is the only strategy used cross-culturally against demonic possession, and in all instances where it is allowed to work without interference, it is eminently successful. … The worst situation in the West is the one involving demonic possession. Those afflicted by it need help. Exorcism works, other strategies do not, yet their diagnosis and treatment are determined not by what works but by the prevailing attitudes, the paradigm concerning the nature of reality. The position is so ingrained that arguments that religious experience is accompanied by measurable and recordable physiological changes are totally ignored. Finally, it should be noted that Mary, the mother of Jesus, reportedly told Anneliese in a vision she had months in advance that her ordeal would be over on the day she actually died.” What is the divine perspective on this outcome, and were the exorcisms “successful” according to the divine? What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 16 hours ago • Spirit Possession5 views0 answers0 votesSpirit obsession and possession are bigger problems than most people realize. It’s a problem that spans both life and death, and affects the living and the dead in profound and nearly equal measure. Can Creator share with us how Empowered Prayer, the Lightworker Healing Protocol, Deep Subconscious Mind Reset, and Divine Life Support are the best and most effective means to resolve this vexing problem from BOTH sides of the physical and post-physical divide?ClosedNicola asked 16 hours ago • Spirit Possession4 views0 answers0 votes
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