Rare variant of lycanthropy and ecstasy

Lycanthropy is an unusual belief or delusion in which the patient thinks that he/she has been transformed into an animal. In rare cases, the patient believes that another person has been transformed into an animal. We report a patient with an uncommon variant of lycanthropy is introduced. The sympto...

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Veröffentlicht in:Addiction and health 2009, Vol.1 (1), p.53-56
Hauptverfasser: Nasirian, Mansoureh, Banazadeh, Nabi, Kheradmand, Ali
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Lycanthropy is an unusual belief or delusion in which the patient thinks that he/she has been transformed into an animal. In rare cases, the patient believes that another person has been transformed into an animal. We report a patient with an uncommon variant of lycanthropy is introduced. The symptoms appeared after consumption of ecstasy. This shows the occurrences of uncommon and rare psychosis after ecstasy drug use especially in patients susceptible to schizophrenia. Ecstasy drug can induce paranoid psychosis similar to schizophrenia. In the presented case, ecstasy seemed to have a role in patient's underlying susceptibility to schizophrenia.
ISSN:2008-4633
2008-8469