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Bol Mex His Fil Med 2008; 11 (2)

Myths and Science: Clinical Lycanthropy and Werewolves

Díaz-Rosales JD, Romo JE, Loera OF

Language: Spanish
References: 36
Page: 68-70
PDF size: 94.84 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Lycanthropy: although the term is used to describe the change from man to wolf, this term is used to describe metamorphosis into any animal form. Clinical lycanthropy is currently described like a rare psychiatric condition in which the patient believes in his anatomic transformation into an animal.


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