Citation

Benezech M, De Witte J, Etchepare JJ, Bourgeois M. Ann. Med. Psychol. (Paris) 1989; 147(4): 464-470.

Vernacular Title

A propos d'une observation de lycanthropie avec violences mortelles.

Affiliation

Service Médico-Psychologique Régional des Prisons, Centre Hospitalier Spécialisé Charles-Perrens, Bordeaux.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Societe Medico-Psychologique, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2683931

Abstract

After a short historical review of the contemporary medical literature, the authors analyze a new and original observation of lycanthropy. 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. Our observation is closer to hysteria and mythomania on an antisocial personality, although it seems difficult to place the mental pathology of this alcoholic recidivist delinquent into a nosographical frame.

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