Reviews for Contemporary poets of 1976

The average rating for Contemporary poets of 1976 based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-09-06 00:00:00 Viviana Villarreal An entertaining but informative collection of twentieth century case studies from psychiatric journals involving vampirism, lycanthropy, and demonic possession. The studies are from the 1960s through the 80s so they are a bit dated. However these are serious articles designed to explore the far reaches of human behavior. These are also well researched psychological treatises and not questionable "science" such as paranormal psychology or crypto-zoology. I like the study of clinical vampirism also known as Renfield Syndrome, a badly named disease as Renfield liked to eat insects and rodents, not just drink blood. There are also case studies of lycanthropy. While this is usually a person who thinks he is a dog there is one example of a man who thought he was a cat, a delusion that lasted 13 years. Another interesting essay discusses the rise of neuroses and psychosis involving demon possession after the release of the movie The Exorcist. Not the normal psychology book but one that would be an entertaining side trip for those readers into horror and dark fiction.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-05-23 00:00:00 Paul Goldstein Interesting. Repetitive because it's a collection of papers rather than a cohesive book, but still interesting. I've never studied psychiatry and do not know what are the current trends, but this felt a bit dated, even before I got to the part about neuroses brought on by the movie The Exorcist.