What's the difference between lycanthropic and lycanthropy?

Lycanthropic


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to 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.

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