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Lycanthropy and demonomania: some psychopathological issues

1990/08/01 by Karl Koehler, H. Ebel, Dimitrios Vartzopoulos · 4 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Mental Health and Psychiatry #Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications #Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research #Psychopathology #Psychology #Clinical psychology

paper · doi:10.1017/s0033291700017141

openalex publication_date 1990/08/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15

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.

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