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 …

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 …

The authors describe one case of Lycanthropy and revise the literature about this theme.
They observe that Lycanthropy has received scant attention in the modern literature, but …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Lycanthropy is a rare variant of a delusional misidentification syndrome specifically reverse
intermetamorphosis where patients believe that they are experiencing transformation or …

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

First reported case of clinical lycanthropy in a 12-year-old adolescent: From culture-bound
syndromes to Internet-mediated delusions? Clinical lycanthropy is a syndrome in which the …