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Pathogenesis

Cause

The cause of this clinical condition is not fully identified. Applying the psychoanalytic theory clinical vampirism could be due to traumas and conflicts during the development of individual children.

* Children: the first stage usually occurs during childhood, when the child is involved in a bloody incident in which discovers the excitement of blood.

* Autovampirism: where he discovers the pleasure that causes vision or taste of his own blood.

* Zoophagy: where they pass test the blood of animals, being particularly attracted by the so-called pets.

* Clinical vampirism: the most advanced stage of the syndrome and that characterizes, in which the individual moves to eating compulsively blood of other human beings, whether drinking obtained from blood banks and laboratories collected blood, or directly from a subject voluntary donor.

Treatment

Vampirism was formally proposed as a particular clinical condition in 1985 by Herschel Prins and in 1992 Richard Noll described its characteristics with the name of Renfield's syndrome.

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No specific treatment and according to psychoanalytic theory in the etiology of the disorder some authors suggest that patients with clinical vampirism could benefit from a psychodynamic approach and the incorporation of psychoanalytic thinking in a comprehensive therapeutic approach, or cognitive-behavioral therapies .

* Hematodixia and hematodipsia: terms not used or accepted by the medical and scientific community

* Sanguinarius: Term coined, particularly in Anglo groups, some practitioners of no criminal vampirism

Allan Menzies

Reinfeld's Syndrome

The clinical vampirism is a rare mental disorder characterized by sexual arousal associated with a compulsive need to see, feel or ingesting blood there or not creencial delusion of being a vampire.

It is a Scottish 22 movie addict who became obsessed with the movie Queen of the Damned in (2002), based on the novel by Anne Rice , as he later told his arrest after killing his friend Thomas McKendrick 21 years precisely who had given him a copy of the film, which saw more than a hundred times during that month. Convinced that Akasha , the vampire played by the late singer Aaliyah , was real and had agreed with to become immortal if he killed someone, December 1, 2002, when his friend laughed and made ​​sexual comments of the actress, Allan dealt him 42 stab wounds, he smashed his head with over 10 hammer, drank their blood and ate part of his brain.

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Renfield's Syndrome

or Vampirism

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