Background: Culture can affect psychiatric disorders. Clinical Lycanthropy is a rare
syndrome, described since Antiquity, within which the patient has the delusional belief of …

We read with interest the case report of Clinical Lycanthropy published in Psychiatry
Research by Groh et al.(Groh et al. 2020), who described the case of a 39-year-old man with …

Clinical lycanthropy is defined as a rare psychiatric syndrome that involves a delusion that
the affected person can transform into, has transformed into, or is a non-human animal. Its …

Lycanthropy is an unusual belief or delusion that one has been transformed into an animal,
or behaviors or feelings suggestive of such a belief. We report a case of lycanthropic …

This paper provides an overview and critical reassessment of the cases of clinical
lycanthropy reported in the medical literature from 1850 onwards. Out of 56 original case …

Objective: The imagination of being transformed into an animal or being an animal is called
lycanthropy. The phenomenon is presented and psychodynamical aspects are discussed …

Lycanthropy, the belief that one has been transformed into an animal (or behaviour
suggestive of such a belief), has been described by physicians and clerics since antiquity …

Discussion Beliefs are likely formed through complex associative learning and serve the
purpose of creating an internal model of the environment that creates expectancies and …

We describe the case of a patient diagnosed with Huntington's disease (HD), who, following
a two-year history of anxiety with obsessional preoccupations, developed psychosis with …

Objective: Lycanthropy is the belief in the capacity of human metamorphosis into animal
form. It has been recorded in many cultures. Apart from historic description of lycanthropy …