To the casuistry of states of obsession

Abstract

Various types of obsession, thanks to still existing superstitions or beliefs, mainly of the common people, despite their long history, are encountered to the present not only in the form of individual cases, but also epidemically. True, some types of obsession, such as, for example, the delirium about the transformation of a person into animals, especially wolves (mainly the property of the Middle Ages) according to Professor V. M. Bekhterev), apparently no longer occur and only demonomania or demonic possession, no less widespread in the Middle Ages, still appears among the religious masses in the form of so-called corruption or hysterics, or even in the form of real demonic possession.

Keywords

Bekhterev neurology archive

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Donskov N.A.