(I served for a time as a scientific adviser on the group’s governing board. Members believe in such strange cases because they are constantly called upon to help. In 2014, Pope Francis formally recognized the IAE, 400 members of which are to convene in Rome this October. Conference of Catholic Bishops organized a meeting in Baltimore for interested clergy. (He receives about 20 inquiries per week, double the number from when his bishop appointed him in 2005.) The Catholic Church has responded by offering greater resources for clergy members who wish to address the problem. Vincent Lampert, an Indianapolis-based priest-exorcist who is active in the International Association of Exorcists. The United States is home to about 50 “stable” exorcists - those who have been designated by bishops to combat demonic activity on a semi-regular basis - up from just 12 a decade ago, according to the Rev. The Vatican does not track global or countrywide exorcism, but in my experience and according to the priests I meet, demand is rising. Much later, she permitted me to tell her story. This was not psychosis it was what I can only describe as paranormal ability. Six people later vouched to me that, during her exorcisms, they heard her speaking multiple languages, including Latin, completely unfamiliar to her outside of her trances.
She knew how individuals she’d never known had died, including my mother and her fatal case of ovarian cancer. She could tell some people their secret weaknesses, such as undue pride. The researchers suspected that the length of a psychotic break would predict whether a person was at higher risk of ongoing problems with psychosis, he said. But my subject’s behavior exceeded what I could explain with my training. (In a case that helped induce the hysteria, Virginia McMartin and others had recently been charged with alleged Satanic ritual abuse at a Los Angeles preschool the charges were later dropped.) So I was inclined to skepticism. This was at the height of the national panic about Satanism.
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That background is why a Catholic priest had asked my professional opinion, which I offered pro bono, about whether this woman was suffering from a mental disorder. Robinson, who has a WordPress site, eloquently describes her work: Demons in the Age of Light is my account of a psychotic break I experienced at age eighteen. I’m a man of science and a lover of history after studying the classics at Princeton, I trained in psychiatry at Yale and in psychoanalysis at Columbia.
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