title: Lycanthropy and demonomania: some psychopathological issues.
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.
authors.affiliation: University Psychiatric Clinic, Bonn, West Germany.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koehler
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ebel
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vartzopoulos
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D003702:Delusions / Q000523:psychology*; D003861:Depersonalization / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008273:Magic; D011936:Reality Testing; D012649:Self Concept