2010/02/09 by Tom Dening, Albert West · 3 citations
Psychology · Arts and Humanities · #Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies #Mental Health and Psychiatry #Psychedelics and Drug Studies #Delusion #Psychology #Phenomenon #Psychosis #Developmental psychology #Period (music) #Psychiatry #Psychoanalysis #Cognitive psychology #Epistemology
paper · doi:10.1159/000284617
openalex publication_date 2010/02/09 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/26
A case is described who exhibited lycanthropy during an acute psychotic illness. During a short period she experienced herself as four different species of animal, an occurrence not previously reported. The phenomenon of lycanthropy is most appropriately regarded as a delusion, but the abnormal subjective experience is stressed, not just the falsely-held belief.