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NATIVE AMERICAN CODE OF ETHICS&&&&&&&&& 1. Catholic Fire. World Prayers - Prayer Archive (prayers from all traditions) Demon Possession and Mental Illness. Does demon possession exist today? If so, should it be considered in the differential diagnosis of mental illness? Chris Cook offers some insights from a Christian perspective.

Christians have held many different views on how we should apply New Testament accounts of demon possession (or 'demonisation') to the construction of a contemporary understanding of spiritual and mental disease. Following the enlightenment, and particularly within more academic or scientific circles, it has been popular to 'demythologise' the Gospel stories of demon possession[1] Anthropologists, psychotherapists, psychologists and psychiatrists see beliefs about demonology as being culturally or socially determined explanations for problems which can otherwise be fully explained in sociological, psychodynamic, psychological or psychiatric terms.

It is not possible here to provide a full coverage of this subject. Demythologisation Demon possession: Biblical and contemporary presentations References.

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