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 …

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

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 …

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 …

This book offers a detailed and thorough perspective on the psychological meanings of
animals to human beings and on their role in the development of the human mind and its …

Zooanthropy (delusional beliefs of turning into an animal) is a rare but well recognised
psychiatric phenomenon. This case describes the presence of kynanthropic delusions …

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 …

The amount of popular,“scientific” werewolf theories is inversely proportional to serious
investigations into the history of the werewolf. A critical approach of these theories leaves …

This chapter offers a guided tour of the anguished, puzzling, scary, and, at times, darkly
erotic mental zoo. It covers a large terrain of psychiatric symptomatology involving animals …

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 …