Unusual cases of succubus: A cultural phenomenon manifesting as part of psychopathology

Succubus is also known as demon female lover who approaches males in their dreams to have sex. This is the phenomenon which is rarely described in psychiatric literature. It is more identified as a cultural belief in different religions. We report the two cases diagnosed with schizophrenia, who repo...

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Autores principales: Grover, Sandeep, Mehra, Aseem, Dua, Devakshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6198602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30416306
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ipj.ipj_71_17
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description Succubus is also known as demon female lover who approaches males in their dreams to have sex. This is the phenomenon which is rarely described in psychiatric literature. It is more identified as a cultural belief in different religions. We report the two cases diagnosed with schizophrenia, who reported this rare phenomenon of succubus as part of their psychopathology and discuss the phenomenon of succubus.
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spelling pubmed-61986022018-11-09 Unusual cases of succubus: A cultural phenomenon manifesting as part of psychopathology Grover, Sandeep Mehra, Aseem Dua, Devakshi Ind Psychiatry J Case Report Succubus is also known as demon female lover who approaches males in their dreams to have sex. This is the phenomenon which is rarely described in psychiatric literature. It is more identified as a cultural belief in different religions. We report the two cases diagnosed with schizophrenia, who reported this rare phenomenon of succubus as part of their psychopathology and discuss the phenomenon of succubus. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6198602/ /pubmed/30416306 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ipj.ipj_71_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Industrial Psychiatry Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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