Belief in transforming another person into a wolf: could it be a variant of lycanthropy?

AG Nejad - Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: Lycanthropy is a rare psychiatric condition in which the patient believes in being
transformed into an animal. Belief in the transformation of another person into an animal has …

Lycanthropy as a culture-bound syndrome: a case report and review of the literature

RB Khalil, P Dahdah, S Richa… - Journal of Psychiatric …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
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 …

Lycanthropy alive in Babylon: the existence of archetype

AA Younis, HF Moselhy - Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Lycanthropy in depression: a case report

AR MOGHADAS, M Nasseri - 2004 - sid.ir
Lycanthropy, by definition, is a belief of delusion in which the patient considers himself or
others as a wolf or some other animals. Knowledge of lycanthropy dates back to about two …

Lycanthropy: a dangerous reverse intermetamorphosis. Review of 23 cases with the syndrome of lycanthropy

HF Moselhy, A Nasr - European journal of psychiatry, 1999 - research.uaeu.ac.ae
The belief in the capacity of human metamorphosis into animal form has been recorded in
many cultures. Apart from historic description of lycanthropy, there have been 24 cases …

Co‐existence of lycanthropy and Cotard's syndrome in a single case

AG Nejad, K Toofani - Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: Lycanthropy is an unusual psychiatric syndrome involving the delusion of being
an animal. Cotard's syndrome is another rare condition in which the patient has nihilistic …

[PDF][PDF] Man transforming into wolf: a rare case of clinical lycanthropy

GH Sayar, G Kagan, E Ozten - J. Neurobehav. Sci, 2014 - academia.edu
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 …

Attempted suicide during an episode of lycanthropy-a case report and review of literature

A Groh, A Heberlein, N Thürauf, P Garlipp… - Psychiatry …, 2020 - safetylit.org
Lycanthropy is the belief of being transformed into an animal, seen either in animal-like
behaviour or in the explicit verbal expressions of the patient. Garlipp and Machleidt (2003) …

Lycanthropy–psychopathological and psychodynamical aspects

P Garlipp, T Gödecke‐Koch, DE Dietrich… - Acta Psychiatrica …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
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: alive and well in the twentieth century

PE Keck, HG Pope, JI Hudson, SL McElroy… - Psychological …, 1988 - cambridge.org
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 …