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A return to exorcism may be excessive, but there is plenty of evidence that children are hardier than previously thought (see, for instance, this essay by Judith Rich Harris, or read her book The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do ).
Lee's exorcism has supposedly unearthed the "sweet little boy" inside him, spurring ex-wife Pamela Anderson to run back into his tattooed arms--and, apparently, into his bed.
Child molesting is thought to be so evil, so far outside the bounds of civilization, that no means of exorcism can be considered too harsh or prone to error.
And what about the prominence of the word bless which carries the meaning of exorcism, healing, remedy in Caribbean folk consciousness?
The Vatican's new, revised guide to exorcism, "De Exorcismis et Supplicantionibus Quibusdam," lists these three warning signs but cautions that exorcists "must not consider people to be vexed by demons who are suffering from some psychic illness."