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 …

Lycanthropy, an unusual psychiatric syndrome involving the delusion of being an animal,
usually occurs as a transient symptom of severe psychosis. A review of the historical and …

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 …

Lycanthropy: New Evidence of Its Origin Page 1 Original Paper Psychopathology 1999;32:173–176
Lycanthropy: New Evidence of Its Origin Hamdy F. Moselhy Bushey Fields Hospital, Dudley …

A case is described who exhibited lycanthropy during an acute psychotic illness. During a
short period she experienced herself as four different species of animal, an occurrence not …

Discussion Interpretations of this syndrome have advanced from religious-superstitious to
medical models and more recently to psychodynamic interpretations. The case histories of …

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 …

Modern reports on lycanthropy mainly concentrate on the content of patients' beliefs in being
transformed into an animal. By contrast, an interest in the form of the symptomatology is …

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 …

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 …