Psychiatrist & Author Dr. Richard Gallagher Says Demons & Demonic Possession are Real

Accomplished psychiatrist and professor, Dr. Richard Gallagher, in his 272-page book, Demonic Foes: My Twenty-Five Years as a Psychiatrist Investigating Possessions, Diabolic Attacks, and the Paranormal, first published in the fall of 2020, makes a compelling case that demons and demonic possession are real. 

Gallagher was skeptical yet intrigued when a hard-nosed, no-nonsense Catholic priest asked him to examine a woman for a possible exorcism. Meeting her, Gallagher was astonished. The woman's behavior defied logic. In an instant, she could pinpoint a person's secret weaknesses. She knew how individuals she'd never known had died, including Gallagher's own mother, who passed away after a lengthy battle with ovarian cancer. She spoke fluently in multiple languages, including Latin-but only when she was in a trance. 

This was not psychosis, Gallagher concluded. It was, in his scientific estimation, what could only be described as paranormal ability. The woman wasn't mentally disturbed-she was possessed. This remarkable case was the first of many that Gallagher would encounter. Sought after today by leaders of all faiths-ministers, priests, rabbis, and imams, Gallagher has spent a quarter-century studying demonic activity and exorcisms throughout history and has witnessed more cases than any other psychiatrist in the world today. 

"I do want to emphasize in all that I write and say, that I am committed to science, that scientific methodology has immensely helped the human race," he said.

"But not all knowledge can be verified by lab experiments and that sort of thing. Most of what we're talking about when we talk about religious truths, and certainly this field of the demonic, is essentially historical knowledge. It's observations and observations about historical facts can be true or false, depending on the credibility of the witness, depending on how sensible seems the reports of these phenomena," he noted

In this eerie and enthralling book, Gallagher chronicles his most famous cases for the first time, including: 

• A professional who claimed her spiritualist mother had "assigned" her a spirit who "turned on her." 
• A petite woman-"90 pounds soaking wet"-who threw a 200-pound Lutheran deacon across the room to the horror of onlookers in a church hall; 
• And "Julia," the so-called Satanic queen and self-described witch, who exhibited "the most harrowing" case, a "once-in-a-century" possession. 
• Going beyond horror movies and novels, Demonic Foes takes you deep into this hidden world, sharing in full detail these true-life tales of demonic possession. 
• And much more!  

 

 

 

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