Vampirism and drakulism: A both cosmetic and curative syncretic approach to avoid future COVID-19 contacts

摘要

Clinical vampirism, more commonly known as Renfield’s syndrome, is an obsession with drinking blood. The earliest formal presentation of clinical vampirism to appear in the psychiatric literature, with the psychoanalytic interpretation of two cases, was contributed by Richard L. Vanden Bergh and John F. Kelley [1,2]. As the authors point out, in 2010, over 50,000 people have become addicted to drinking blood. Many medical publications concerning clinical vampirism can be found in the literature of forensic psychiatry, with the unusual behavior reported as one of many aspects of extraordinary violent crimes [3-5].