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Film: The Exorcist (Faber classic screenplay series) Film: The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
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“He delivered a blistering statement regarding the readiness of the general public to recognize psychosomatic illness, while failing to recognize the reverse: that illness of the body was often the cause of seeming illness of the mind. “Now what would you say,” he proposed as an instance, “if you were my
internist, God forbid, and I told you I had headaches, recurring nightmares, nausea, insomnia and blurring of the vision; and also that I generally felt unglued and was worried to death about my job? Would you say I was neurotic?...Those symptoms I gave you are the same as for brain tumor. Check the body. That’s first”.”
Blatty W P, Film: The Exorcist