Clinical Lycanthropy: The Werewolves Among Us - Livestream

Join us as psychologist Brian A. Sharpless discusses unusual psychological conditions described in his new book, Monsters on the Couch: The Real Psychological Disorders Behind Your Favorite Horror Movies. We’ll delve into Clinical Lycanthropy, a psychiatric syndrome within which the patient has the delusional belief of turning into a wolf, and Clinical Zoanthropy, a broader category of delusional belief in turning into an animal. (Hollywood has dramatized werewolf stories many times, but were-gerbils remain “stories untold.”) What are these real-life disorders, how do they compare with myth and popular culture, and what treatments are available?

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