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J Relig Health (2014) 53:16911692 DOI 10.1007/s10943-014-9910-7
PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLORATION
Concerns About Schizophrenia or Possession?
A. Nuray Karanci
Published online: 24 July 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
The article Schizophrenia or Possession? published in the J Relig Health (2014) (53: 773777; doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10943-012-9673-y
Web End =10.1007/s10943-012-9673-y ) written by M. Kemal Irmak has serious aws in its arguments about the possibility of demonic possession in patients with schizophrenia which to my concern may misguide patients and families and seriously hinder their access to proper mental health care. The view espoused about schizophrenia as a possession by devils is completely lacking any sound scientic evidence that it is very surprising to see it published in a peer reviewed scientic journal.
First of all in the article, the evidence relating schizophrenia to...