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The Amsler grid showing the visual perception of the left eye of a person experiencing metamorphopsia (straight lines appear bent or curved) [1] [2]. Metamorphopsia (from Ancient Greek: μεταμορφοψία, metamorphopsia, 'seeing mutated shapes') is a type of distorted vision in which a grid of straight lines appears wavy or partially blank.
Clinical lycanthropy is a rare psychiatric syndrome that involves a delusion that the affected person can transform into, has transformed into, or is a non-human animal. [1] Its name is associated with the mythical condition of lycanthropy , a supernatural affliction in which humans are said to physically shapeshift into wolves. [ 2 ]
The model for a collection of metamorphosis myths was found in the metamorphosis poetry of the Hellenistic tradition, which is first represented by Boios' Ornithogonia—a now-fragmentary poem of collected myths about the metamorphoses of humans into birds. [5]
Prosopometamorphopsia (PMO [1]), also known as demon face syndrome, [2] is a visual disorder characterized by altered perceptions of faces. In the perception of a person with the disorder, facial features are distorted in a variety of ways including drooping, swelling, discoloration, and shifts of position.
In his understanding, morphology is the science of the structure of living things. "Morphing" describes the seamless transition from one state or appearance into another. Like the morphing technique used in films, morphological psychology studies the structures of our psyche and aims to understand the transitions, the metamorphosis of our mind.
A dragonfly in its final moult, undergoing metamorphosis, it begins transforming from its nymph form to an adult. Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops including birth transformation or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation. [1]
Treatment of any co-occurring mental disorder or substance abuse is necessary. [7] There have been no controlled studies about pharmacological treatments of intermetamorphosis. [ 3 ] However, both atypical and typical antipsychotics are often used, and have been found to be effective in patients with both organic and functional disorders.
Human-animal shapeshifting in mythology, folklore, and fiction; Clinical lycanthropy, a psychiatric delusion of transforming into an animal; See also.