Well, let me see a seat on the virtual cast. Well, let me start today's podcast by saying, you're welcome, because I'm about to hand you a gift.

You will be able to share what I'm about to tell you with anybody today, and I'm going to guess

that they will not have heard of what you're going to share.

So I had a client in my office.

It was a few days ago, and we were talking about the fact that I've done a lot of episodes

of the podcast now.

And I was thinking about it.

And I'm almost to the four-year anniversary of the podcast.

And on one of the very early episodes, I was talking with a guest and we were talking about when clients come in

the office and they just assume that you know everything about every psychological principle known

to man. And this particular client said, well, I'm sure you're familiar with lichanthropy.

And I said, I'm really not. And he said, really? Lichenthropy? Clinical lichensthropy? Maybe that, maybe that rings a bell. And that was years ago. And I still remember feeling a little bit anxious thinking, oh my gosh, did I miss something? Is clinical lichanthropy, this really simple concept that I should have learned, not even in grad school, but in psychology 101, does every student learn early on about clinical lycanthropy?

And this was a time that I fell asleep early in class, you know, am I bad therapist?

Because I can't pull this one right out of my head.

And so then I said, I had to stand there in my confidence and say, I really don't know about

clinical lycanthropy.

And he continued to go on and on about how, wow, boy, have you been doing this for a long

time? And he continued to go on and on about how, wow, boy, have you been doing this for a long time,

I would have assumed you knew this.

And it turns out, let me define clinical lycanthropy.

Clinical lycanthropy is defined as a rare psychiatric syndrome that involves a delusion that the affected person can transform into, has transformed into, or is an animal. And its name is associated with the

mythical condition of lichenthropy or a supernatural affliction in which humans are said to

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