Psychological Medicine
- Psychological Medicine / Volume 20 / Issue 03 / August 1990, pp 629-633
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700017141 (About DOI), Published online: 09 July 2009
Original Articles
Lycanthropy and demonomania: some psychopathological issues
K. Koehlera1 c1, H. Ebela1 and D. Vartzopoulosa1
a1 University Psychiatric Clinic, Bonn, West Germany
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.
Correspondence:
c1 Address for correspondence: Professor K. Koehler, University Psychiatric Clinic, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 5300 Bonn 1, West Germany.
