(n.) A human being fabled to have been changed into a wolf; a werewolf.
(n.) One affected with lycanthropy.
Example Sentences:
(1) About the first group, the authors make a phenomenological analysis and present a clinical case of Lycanthropic delusion.
(2) 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.
(3) He is a 28 years old man, imprisoned for deadly violence, who has been showing, for many years, the belief of being transformed into a werewolf during depersonalization episodes when he presents a lycanthropic behaviour.
Lycanthropy
Definition:
(n.) The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf.
(n.) A kind of erratic melancholy, in which the patient imagines himself a wolf, and imitates the actions of that animal.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case is described who exhibited lycanthropy during an acute psychotic illness.
(2) The authors describe one case of Lycanthropy and revise the literature about this theme.
(3) To develop pharmacotherapies for the orphan disease lycanthropy through the pursuit of the etiologic hypothesis of a genetically determined hypersecretion of endogenous lycanthropogens.
(4) They observe that Lycanthropy has received scant attention in the modern literature, but appears to have survived into modern times.
(5) A review of the historical and modern medical literature, as well as of contemporary anthropological reports, suggests multiple etiologies for lycanthropy, including seizure disorders and use of psychotomimetic drugs.
(6) However, in a review of patients admitted to our centre since 1974, we identified twelve cases of lycanthropy, ranging in duration from one day to 13 years.
(7) As a rare but colourful presentation of psychosis, lycanthropy appears to have survived into modern times.
(8) Lycanthropy, an unusual psychiatric syndrome involving the delusion of being an animal, usually occurs as a transient symptom of severe psychosis.
(9) Modern reports on lycanthropy mainly concentrate on the content of patients' beliefs in being transformed into an animal.
(10) The phenomenon of lycanthropy is most appropriately regarded as a delusion, but the abnormal subjective experience is stressed, not just the falsely-held belief.
(11) 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, but has received scant attention in the modern literature.
(12) After a short historical review of the contemporary medical literature, the authors analyze a new and original observation of lycanthropy.