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Anneliese Michel

Anna Elisabeth Michel (21 September 1952 – 1 July 1976) was a German woman who died of malnutrition and Dehydration. She became known because Catholic priests did 67 exorcism rites on her, in the year before she died. Her parents and the priests were convicted of negligent homicide for this. She suffered from epilepsy, and had done a number of psychiatric treatments, which were largely ineffective.^[1]

When she was 16, Michel had a seizure and was diagnosed with psychosis caused by temporal lobe epilepsy. Shortly afterwards, she was diagnosed with depression and was treated in a psychiatric hospital. By the time that she was 20, she had become intolerant of various religious objects and began to hear voices. Her condition worsened despite medication, and she became suicidal. She also had other conditons for which she took medication. After taking psychiatric medications for five years failed to improve her symptoms, Michel and her family became convinced she was possessed by a demon.^[2]^[3] As a result, her family appealed t

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Lessons Learned: The Anneliese Michel Exorcism

In 1976, a twenty-three year old German girl, named Anneliese Michel, died following months of exorcism sessions. Despite the fact that she had been medically diagnosed with epilepsy and manic depressive psychosis, two priests conducted numerous exorcism sessions and ignored her mental, medical, and physical condition. Doctors would later state that her cause of death was starvation and dehydration. Unfortunately, Ms. Michel's tragic death due to misdiagnosed demonic possession and negligently applied exorcism was neither the first nor the last of such negligence to occur. Complete familiarity with the spiritual elements of demonical possession and attack is the sole focus of most demonologists, exorcists, and clerical members of Christianity. Few clerics have a sufficient understanding of psychiatric conditions that may mimic the symptoms of demonic possession. The result has been catastrophic for many innocent people over the centuries. The overlooking or ignoring of a person's medical and psychiatric condition is the primary culpr

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On July 1, 1976, Anna Elisabeth “Anneliese” Michel, a twenty-four-year-old college student from the town of Klingenberg in Bavaria, Germany, died of what appeared to be severe battery and starvation. A physician was called to the house to issue a death certificate, but refused on the grounds he was not convinced she died of natural causes, having found her emaciated and with contusions on her face, hands, arms, and legs. Father Ernst Alt, a Jesuit, phoned the district attorney’s office to explain that he had been conducting a series of exorcisms on Anneliese, believing her to be demonically possessed. The case quickly became a sensation, and over the years has been adapted into film several times, most famously in 2005 as The Exorcism of Emily Rose.

It all began when in 1968, around the time of her sixteenth birthday, Anneliese had the first of several seizures. She lost consciousness during school and was found by her classmate to be in a trance-like state. Later that night, Anneliese awoke claiming she felt as if something was pressing down on her. She couldn’t move, couldn