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"This book argues that all possessions, not just those that were feigned or otherwise volitional, were theatrical productions in which the demoniacs and also their families, neighbours, physicians, pastors, and exorcists, played their assigned roles."

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"The second limitation, closely related to the first, is that all such psychiatric diagnoses are ahistorical. They suffer from the assumption that pathological or abnormal behaviour in all societies and all periods of time can be attributed to the same psychopathological syndromes or complexes."

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...that all possessions, ancient or modern, regardless of the differences in the cultures they take place, are essentially the same."
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...that all possessions, ancient or modern, regardless of the differences in the cultures they take place, are essentially the same."
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