In Catholic culture, and especially within the Italian Catholic environment, there has recently been a significant revival of the practice of exorcism. This is a fact noted by historians such as Levack (2013) and Young (2016). The article intends to show how this phenomenon is related to a series of important historical turning points, the most important of which is the recent collaboration between exorcists and Catholic psychologists and psychiatrists to establish a differential diagnosis between real possession and mere psychopathology. The recent revival of exorcism in Italy is particularly noteworthy because it reverses a slow but clear trend in the Catholic Church, in the course of the 20th century, that increasingly considered possessions either as delusional or very rare. The reality of the devil has never been denied by the Catholic Church, but until the Second Vatican Council, the tendency was to de-escalate the denunciations of its direct and personal presence in the world. The article describes this evolution up to the most recent developments, highlighting the historiographical entanglements related to the coexistence, within the scientific realm, of demonological and psychological themes and beliefs.

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在神圣与亵渎之间：拥有，精神病理学和天主教会。

在天主教文化中，特别是在意大利天主教环境中，最近驱魔习俗有了重大复兴。Levack（2013）和Young（2016）等历史学家指出了这一事实。本文旨在说明这种现象如何与一系列重要的历史转折点相关联，其中最重要的是驱魔人与天主教心理学家和精神病学家之间最近的合作，以建立对真正拥有和纯粹精神病理学之间的鉴别诊断。意大利最近的驱魔复兴尤其值得一提，因为它扭转了天主教在20世纪的缓慢而明显的趋势，即越来越多的人将其视为妄想或非常稀有。天主教会从未否认过魔鬼的现实，但是直到第二届梵蒂冈会议之前，其趋势是降低其在世界上直接和个人存在的谴责。这篇文章描述了这种演变直至最近的发展，并着重指出了与科学领域内的恶魔，心理学主题和信仰共存有关的史学纠缠。