Quratulain’s Reviews > Glimpses of the Devil: A Psychiatrist's Personal Accounts of Possession, Exorcism, and Redemption > Status Update

“Evil people are not capable of love. They can pretend to be loving as long as the pretense costs them little or nothing. “

“Possession is not an accident. In becoming possessed the victim must at least in some way cooperate with or sell out to the devil. Such initial sellouts are often made under great duress. Thereafter the possession is a deepening process over time unless the victim reneges on the pact.”

“Inability of videotape to pickup appearance of satanic expressions on her face..”

“Loneliness may be a precondition for possession or else a precondition for the deepening of that possession.”

“For all intents and purposes she had no family, she had no friends, she had no allegiances. Beccah had only Satan. A fiend who pretended to be her friend, a fiend whom she believed to be her friend, a friend who did not charge her for visits, her only real friend, Satan.”

“The earlier in life the patient is possessed the deeper the possession will be.”

“She struck me as being a very sick lady but in a way that I could never put my finger on.

“In a sense it had gotten me, reducing me to a blob of guilt and there’s.

“I would for no discernible reason have to r feeling that Beccah was no longer in my office, that the woman sitting in her chair who looked like Beccah was in fact a complete stranger to me. Intuitively I knew it was not the woman I knew. The presence seemed to have no personality save for the fact I always felt it was mocking me in a way I could not quite put my finger on.”

“…waking up during the middle of the night with agitation— a type of insomnia very common in depression•