tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post7630917856209520858..comments2024-03-14T23:52:09.893-07:00Comments on The Neurocritic: Ophidianthropy: The Delusion of Being Transformed into a SnakeThe Neurocritichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-46209657571574187022015-10-29T09:23:41.036-07:002015-10-29T09:23:41.036-07:00Thanks for your comment. The initial point of the ...Thanks for your comment. The initial point of the post was to describe two cases of a rare and bizarre syndrome for Halloween. The Neurocritic has a <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=halloween+site%3Aneurocritic.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">long history</a> of such posts. For instance, <a href="http://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2012/10/every-day-is-halloween.html" rel="nofollow">(Every Day Is) Halloween</a> has a list of horror-related posts from 2006-2012. I've also written specifically about clinical lycanthropy, including the Kydd paper (see Further Reading).<br /><br />Then it became apparent that these case reports of ophidianthropy had little (if any) peer review. <br /><br />Perhaps you know something I don't... perhaps Mondal et al. were pranking us as well. I assumed that wasn't the case. So why report the buffalo incident? Why cite an April Fool's joke (and a fake paper contained therein) in an Elsevier journal? I thought this said something about the state of publishing, and as you said "the sad state of psychopathology research." Given that a presumably real patient was described and then discussed in the context of completely made-up science, I did think that was harmful.The Neurocritichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-42793340825473157442015-10-29T06:51:20.040-07:002015-10-29T06:51:20.040-07:00hello
although the kydd article is a treasure, an...hello<br /><br />although the kydd article is a treasure, and that the authors from CIP cited it is awesome, I don't know what the post as a whole was trying to say (full disclosure:I know every single one of the authors on the first paper personally)<br /><br />If you're referring to the general issue of people trying to carve out spaces in terms of psychopathology, may I refer you to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3775058/ which has another one?<br /><br />My point is, there is no harm in it, even if no good will come of it. though that's the sad state of psychopathology research. :-(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com