A Yale-trained psychiatrist’s encounter with a satanic priestess changed everything he believed about the intersection of science and the supernatural.
A Yale-trained psychiatrist’s encounter with a satanic priestess changed everything he believed about the intersection of science and the supernatural.
When a skeptical Yale-trained psychiatrist was called to evaluate a self-proclaimed satanic high priestess claiming demonic possession, he expected to find mental illness, not a woman who knew intimate secrets about people she’d never met. Dr. Richard Gallagher’s work with “Julia” would span eight exorcisms and challenge everything he believed about the line between psychiatry and the supernatural.