Lycanthropy (psychiatry)
As lycanthropy or Zooanthropismus is delusional imagination designated a person to transform himself into an animal, which as a rare symptom of psychiatric disorders may occur. As a secondary delusional symptom, the perceived certainty that you are transforming into an animal or that you have already been transformed can occur in the case of schizophrenic psychoses , schizoaffective psychoses , dementia and, less often, personality disorders and as a result of the use of psychotropic substances . The phenomenon is one of the oldest described psychiatric symptoms and occurs worldwide, albeit comparatively rarely. The expression, z. B. the type of animal, strongly dependent on cultural factors. The treatment targets the underlying disease and is based on drug therapy and psychotherapy . Clinical lycanthropy is a short-term symptom that usually subsides soon.
Individual evidence
- ^ Petra Garlipp, Detlef E. Dietrich, Horst Halthof: Lykanthropie. In: Petra Garlipp, Horst Halthof (ed.): Rare delusional disorders. Psychopathology - Diagnostics - Therapy Springer DE , 2010, pp. 22–26.