The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel, Felicitas Goodman's 1981 book from Doubleday, is the fullest documented account of the 1975-76 case and the 1978 Aschaffenburg trial, assembled by an anthropologist working from trial records and interviews. Its strength is that assembled documented chronology. Its limit, stated plainly, is that Goodman herself writes sympathetically toward a possession interpretation; this atlas cites the book for its documented sequence of events and the trial, not for its interpretive framing, which remains disputed by medical and psychiatric accounts of the same case.
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Felicitas Goodman's The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel, published by Doubleday in 1981, the middle tier reflecting an anthropologist's assembled chronology from trial records and interviews, weighed against Goodman's own sympathetic framing toward a possession interpretation, which the atlas cites for the documented sequence and trial rather than for that interpretation. NotesThe fullest account of the 1975-76 case and the 1978 Aschaffenburg trial. The author is an anthropologist sympathetic to a possession reading, and the book is cited here for the documented sequence of events rather than for its interpretation.
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AuthorFelicitas D. Goodman
PublisherDoubleday
Publication Year1981
Source Typebook
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