A LIBRARIAN’S ORIENTATION
What this book explores
A psychiatrist recounts cases he interprets as genuine demonic possession and explains how his clinical skepticism gave way to belief.
EDITORIAL NOTE
Why it’s in the Library
It is an influential contemporary Catholic case for demonic possession from a psychiatrist, useful for understanding the claim from inside its own world rather than through caricature.
Good starting place if…
You want a first-person, tradition-native account of why a clinically trained Catholic came to interpret a small number of cases as possession.
Know before you begin…
This is claim-forward testimony, not settled psychiatric evidence. Dramatic cases cannot diagnose another person, and this should not be the sole or first guide for someone in acute distress. Seek qualified clinical help when voices, sleeplessness, impaired functioning, or danger are present.