Toxic and Problematic with Dr Richard Gallagher, 05.25.24
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🗓️ 25 May 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Richard Gallagher MD is the author of Demonic Foes, which is currently being adapted for the big screen by Blumhouse Films. Dr Gallagher is an Ivy league-educated physician and a longtime member of the International Association of Exorcists. We wanted to know how an Ivy league doctor ended up getting involved in the world of exorcisms. After this conversation, I won't be missing mass this weekend.
Check out his book! Demonic Foes: My Twenty-Five Years as a Psychiatrist Investigating Possessions, Diabolic Attacks, and the Paranormal: Gallagher M.D., Richard: 9780062876478: Amazon.com: Books
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's no cone. This week on Toxic and Problematic, the guys interview Dr Richard Gallagher, |
| 0:05.0 | who was the author of demonic foes, My 25 Years, as a psychiatrist investigating |
| 0:10.5 | possessions, diabolic attacks, and the paranormal. |
| 0:13.7 | Hope you enjoy! Dr Gallagher, can you hear us? |
| 0:24.0 | Yes, good afternoon. |
| 0:25.0 | Good afternoon. |
| 0:26.0 | We are so excited to have you on the show. |
| 0:28.0 | How are you doing today? |
| 0:30.0 | Pretty good today, a beautiful day in New York. |
| 0:32.0 | Are you in the city? I just I was born in the city but I |
| 0:35.4 | live north of it at this point. Okay. Now Dr Gallagher we're going to get to the book and |
| 0:39.9 | we're going to get to the movie that I believe is in production that is based on your book |
| 0:43.8 | but can we just start things off you've got quite the resume so could you just give us a quick |
| 0:48.5 | background on who you are and how you got here? |
| 0:52.4 | Well uh... i'm a board certified physician. I'm a professor of |
| 0:57.1 | psychiatry at a couple of different places. I was born in New York City, went to |
| 1:01.8 | Princeton, studied classics, eventually wound up at Yale to study psychiatry, and sort of not really volunteering got asked over the years to consult on cases that different people, especially clergy felt might have demonic attacks. |
| 1:22.0 | Can I stop you there real quick because I think that's an |
| 1:24.0 | interesting thing. So you go to Princeton and you go to Yale and then you're |
| 1:29.3 | working as a psychiatrist I assume, am correct there yes absolutely and then somehow the |
| 1:37.5 | someone in the clergy comes to you and says hey I mean of all those |
| 1:42.0 | psychiatrists I look I get it you're you went to |
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