Criticism
Experiences such as those described in this article are not regarded favorably by some religious groups and mental health professionals. Some fundamentalist Christians denounce the walk-in idea as being connected with the occult. Some psychiatrists such as Herbert Spiegel and cultural analysts such as Joan Acocella believe that all of these experiences, from traditional walk-ins to the New Age variety up to and including cooperative 'healthy multiples', are mere attention-seeking playacting, or at best a "metaphor of distress" to express something the client feels is wrong, or somehow different from usual, but is having trouble describing.
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—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
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