Demonic possession is not a valid psychiatric or medical diagnosis recognized by either the DSM-IV or the ICD-10. Those who profess a belief in demonic possession have sometimes ascribed the symptoms associated with mental illnesses such as hysteria, mania, psychosis, or dissociative identity disorder to possession. There is, however, a mental disease called demonomania or demonopathy. This is a monomania in which the patient believes that he or she is possessed by one or more demons.
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DSM-IV = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
The DSM has gone through five revisions since it was first published in 1952. The last major revision was the DSM-IV published in 1994
ICD-10 = International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems
Work on ICD-10 began in 1983 and was completed in 1992
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