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Classic case: Psychiatric treatment of ghost possession

April 12, 2005 – 9:00 am

In 1994 a curious case-report was published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. It described a man who believed he was possessed by a spirit and was successfully treated by medication. Unusually however, the article mentioned that other people had seen the ghost. Belief in possession is not uncommon in psychosis, the mental state that […]

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