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>I have never heard him recommend seeing a shrink before a spiritual solution. If anyone has a source for this I want to see it because I'm sure the context is not what op is implying.
I can't find evidence of when he says it unfortunately (I'll look later) but I have watched the "Spiritual Warfare" Playlist on YouTube and I do vividly recall in one of the later videos in the Spiritual Warfare Playlist, Fr. Ripperger expresses his disdain for people who, paraphrasing what I can vaguely recall of what he originally said, treat Exorcists like McDonalds in that they present their child to the Exorcist over the slightest issue with their behaviour. Just pop up to the Exorcist, get your Exorcism and then pop out and go back to normal.
I've never heard him attack psychiatrists though. I'd like to see some evidence of that, myself.
In one of the earlier videos in the Spiritual Warfare Playlist, I specifically recall him saying that there was a teenage boy who had issues with what he believed to be demons that talk to him. When Fr. Ripperger asked the teenager what the demons were telling him, the boy was being told to vote Republican at which point, Fr. Ripperger bluntly says that "some people are just nuts" at which point, the audience just burst into laughter. Fr. Ripperger, based off of this, clearly sees some legitimacy to psychiatry as a practise. It's just that as psychiatrists don't believe in demons, they have this blind spot that isn't being addressed.
I also recall Fr. Ripperger saying, in one of the videos in that playlist, that "demons aren't under every rock. They're under every other rock", the message being that while it's untrue that demons are the cause of all mental illnesses, it's also untrue that demons are never the cause. Based off of this and his various anecdotes, I believe it's proper to believe that demons are the cause with enough frequency that one should factor them in, just not to the extent that one would presume they're the cause as the first assumption.