Juan José Lopez-Ibor

Practicing exorcism in schizophrenia.

BMJ Case Reports February 15, 2011 Kazuhiro Tajima-Pozo, Diana Zambrano-Enriquez, Laura De Anta et al.

Historically, many cases of demonic possession have masked major psychiatric disorder. Our aim is to increase awareness that symptoms of schizophrenia are still being classified as demonic possession by priests today. We report the case of a 28-year-old patient who had been diagnosed 5 years previously with paranoid schizophrenia (treated with clozapine, risperidone, ziprasidone and onlanzapine...