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Psychology & Exorcism

A Romanian Priest in the Orthodox Church has been given a 14 year jail sentence for causing the death of a nun while attempting to exercise the "devils" of which she was thought to be possessed.

"In 1999, when the Vatican issued its first new guidelines since 1614 for driving out devils, it urged priests to take modern psychiatry into account in deciding who should be exorcised," says the BBC news article. The Romanian Orthodox Church has promised reforms, including psychological tests for those seeking to enter monasteries.

Psychology and Psychiatry enlarge their borders.

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