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Samuel Pfeifer

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Belief in demons and exorcism in psychiatric patients in Switzerland

British Journal of Medical Psychology September 1, 1994 Samuel Pfeifer 86 citations

Belief in demons as the cause of mental health problems is a well-known phenomenon in many cultures of the world. However, there is little literature on this phenomenon in Protestant subcultures of the West. The author conducted a systematic investigation of the prevalence of this attribution in 343 mainly Protestant out-patients of a psychiatric clinic in Switzerland, who described themselves...