Should this kind of barbaric Rituals be stopped?

The ritual helped her. Anneliese Michel died of malnutrition because she had stopped eating. She also had pneumonia. She and her parents begged for the ritual to be done over a period of years. Her sister said Anneliese was afraid of being locked away in a mental hospital and sedated. Exorcism was never meant to take the place of medical treatment. Using cultural healing rituals has been shown to be effective for people from that culture going through medical and psychiatric treatment.