Jen,

I forgot to list his website where all of his articles and studies are
posted.  Let me look it up and I'll post it to the list.

Phil.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jenifer Gilley" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: [KCLehman] e-newsletter


> phil
>
> where is the rest of the article?  is there an outcome for this kid?
>
> Jenifer Gilley
> Christ came that we may have life everlasting!
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> check out my blog!
> http://claudastar.blogspot.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Electronic Church [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Phil Scovell
> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 6:36 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Fw: [KCLehman] e-newsletter
>
>
> This is a newsletter I receive from time to time.  I posted this story
once
> before but read it again today.  It is a good reminder.  Since I have,
more
> than once, been told I believe in psycho heresy, I thought this story by a
> Christian psychiatrist near Chicago, Illinois, who has over 6,000 hours of
> experience doing intercessory prayer ministry, and who was trained under
the
> same ministry I was trained five years ago, and by the same Christian man
as
> well, would be worth posting to the list again.  I only have 2500 hours of
> intercessory prayer ministry experience so far but I am always learning
and
> I learned something very important from this testimony by Dr. Lehman, too.
>
> Phil.
>
>
> I have included the biggest piece of new material below (unfortunately,
the
> footnotes don't come through on the e-mail).  See the "Posted Documents"
> section on the website for the complete updated version.
>
> Blessings,
>
> Dr. Lehman/Karl
>
>
>
>
> 3. Demonic Infection, Opposition, Harassment: Secular mental health
> professionals can't see or understand any way in which demonic infection,
> opposition, or harassment contribute to the clinical picture because they
> have no place in their world view for these phenomena. Unfortunately, many
> Christian mental health professionals (and pastors) hold the same "demons
> don't exist" world view as their secular colleagues. Demonic harassment
> and/or deception can cause fixed beliefs that appear to be psychotic
> delusions.1 Demonic infection, opposition, and harassment can produce
> "voices," images, and physical sensations that can look exactly like
visual,
> auditory, and tactile hallucinations. Demonic spirits can produce
confusion
> and disorganization that look very much like psychotic thought disorder.
> Demonic spirits can produce disorganized and/or catatonic behavior. Again,
> if a mental health provider does not recognize these
> pseudo-psychotic/psychotic signs and symptoms as demonic phenomena, they
> will understandably try to make the clinical picture fit into the next
> closest diagnostic box (usually bipolar disorder or schizophrenia).
>
> For example, during one of my temporary assignments at a state psychiatric
> hospital, I was asked to perform a psychiatric evaluation on a young man
who
> had been sent from an outpatient mental health clinic with the request
that
> he be admitted to our inpatient unit. His chart indicated that he had been
> carrying the diagnosis of chronic paranoid schizophrenia for a number of
> years, and his case worker had sent him for admission because he seemed to
> be having an acute psychotic exacerbation, and she was concerned that his
> psychotic symptoms might cause him to harm himself or someone else. When I
> went into the examination room, I found a young man who was pacing back
and
> forth across the room in an anxious, agitated fashion, and who began to
> explain that he needed to stay in the hospital "until I can get things
back
> under control."
>
> He described how he had been a very lonely, unhappy teenager until, while
> looking through an occult bookstore one day, he had discovered an Ouija
> board with a friendly looking spirit attached to it. "People are so
> ignorant," he commented, "The other Ouija boards didn't even have spirits,
> but people bought them anyway - what a waste! The boards without spirits
are
> totally worthless." The friendly looking spirit offered to be his friend,
so
> he bought the board and invited this new "friend" into his life. He could
> describe its visual appearance in detail, and claimed that it had
introduced
> itself, by name, when they had first met in the occult bookstore. "At
first,
> it was great," he explained, "I finally had a friend. The spirit would go
> everywhere with me, and I could talk to it any time I wanted to." "But
then
> it started telling me to hurt children....Now, it tries to get me to hurt
> children all of the time. Whenever I walk past the park, it tells me to
> kidnap, torture, rape, and kill the children....Whenever I feel like I'm
> getting weak, and I'm afraid I might give in, I come into the hospital
until
> I can get things back under control."
>
> As the evaluating psychiatrist, one of the most striking things about this
> young man was that, other than the content of his story, and his anxious,
> agitated pacing, he seemed to be completely normal. I had worked with
> hundreds of patients with chronic schizophrenia, and my experience was
that
> patients with true schizophrenia always had many other signs and symptoms
in
> addition to the more dramatic psychotic symptoms (such as hallucinations
and
> delusions). In my experience, patients with true schizophrenia also had
> abnormalities in their social interactions, nonverbal communication,
> cognitive functioning, and thought organization. For example, people with
> schizophrenia will display abnormalities of facial expression and other
> details of body language, abnormalities of voice tone and vocal
inflection,
> abnormalities of timing with respect to social responses, characteristic
> abnormalities of thought organization (the "thought disorders" described
> above), and a variety of subtle problems with other cognitive functions.
>
> This young man, however, displayed social interactions, nonverbal
> communications, cognitive functioning, and thought processes that were all
> completely normal. Furthermore, he didn't have any other hallucinations or
> delusions - other than his perceptions and beliefs regarding his "spirit
> friend," his sensory perceptions and thought content were completely
normal.
>
> So it occurred to me: "Maybe he actually is being oppressed by a demonic
> spirit, and is otherwise normal - maybe he doesn't even have schizophrenia
> at all."2 With this thought in mind, I decided to pursue a treatment
option
> that would certainly be considered unusual for schizophrenia: "I notice
that
> you are wearing a cross. Is Christian spirituality important to you?" When
> he answered that he had grown up in a Christian home, and that he had been
> baptized as a child, I suggested that we might pray, and ask the Lord to
> deal with this spirit that was now pushing him to hurt children.
>
> As soon as I suggested this, he backed against the wall, with wild-eyed
> fright, fending me off with his hands as if I were coming at him with a
> large knife, or maybe a red hot branding iron: "No! No! Don't take it
away!
> I don't want you to take it away - just help me get back in control - just
> make it be nice again, like it was at first." I tried to explain that he
> could invite the Holy Spirit to come and be with him, in place of this
> dangerous spirit, but he kept begging me not to take his spirit friend
away
> from him. When I finally explained that I would not pray without his
> permission, he calmed quickly and dramatically, and was able to go through
> the rest of the admission evaluation without incident.
>
> After completing a careful and thorough evaluation, my honest assessment
was
> that he probably was being oppressed by a demonic spirit, and that he
> probably did not have any mental illness.3 But the mental health
> professionals at the state hospital couldn't even consider this
possibility,
> so they put him in the next closest diagnostic box. The only symptoms
> contributing to his diagnosis of schizophrenia were his beliefs and
> perceptions regarding this demonic spirit - his beliefs about how he had
> discovered it, his beliefs about his ongoing relationship with it, his
> perceptions that he could see it and hear it, and his beliefs that it was
> trying to get him to harm children. But even though he was otherwise
> completely normal, and had no other signs or symptoms of schizophrenia,
the
> mental health professionals involved had concluded that he had chronic
> paranoid schizophrenia on the basis of his "visual hallucinations" (seeing
> the demonic spirit), "auditory hallucinations" (hearing the demonic
spirit),
> and "delusions" (all of his beliefs regarding the demonic spirit). Since
> they did not even consider the possibility that the demonic spirit could
be
> real, schizophrenia was the best diagnosis they could come up with.4
>
>
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