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Lycanthropy and demonomania: some psychopathological issues
K Koehler1, H Ebel, D Vartzopoulos
1University Psychiatric Clinic, Bonn, West Germany.
Psychological Medicine
|August 1, 1990
Abstract:
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 usually minimal. This paper draws on Karl Jaspers' phenomenological views and focuses on some important albeit neglected psychopathological issues related to form which are relevant to any comprehensive consideration of lycanthropic phenomena.