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 …

As with other clinical phenomena, the historical analysis of the term, concepts and
behaviours involved in the construction of'depersonalization'should provide researchers …

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 …

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 …

Therianthropy is the belief that one is part nonhuman animal. Opinions vary in the academic
literature as to whether it is a mental illness or a spiritual belief. Although believed to be rare …

Certain abnormal beliefs are common to diverse cultures, possibly originating in shared
fears, experiences or supernatural beliefs. Zoomorphism, a belief in the capacity for human …

Madness has resisted a satisfactory categorisation for 2, 000 years or more. During the last
century attempts to define and understand schizophrenia as an entity within that disorder …

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 …

The most deviant forms of human behaviour can be disturbing, incomprehensible, and
sometimes very frightening. Herschel Prins believes that even the most deviant-seeming …