For nearly three decades, experts have devoted time and resources to studying the vampiric behaviors described by “Renfield’s Syndrome.” The problem is that it’s totally made-up.
rushed to diagnose Chartres-Abbott. The mixing of blood and sexual urges, they argued, was totally in line with Renfield’s Syndrome, a mental illness that was not formally recognized within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , but that had been documented in academic psychological journals. The disorder was named after R.M.
“I had a realization that in the DSM, there’s over 500 disorders, and there’s only about 10 of them that have any real biological findings,” Noll, now a professor of clinical psychology and the history of medicine at DeSales University, told The Daily Beast. “You know, things like schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder, autism, panic disorder, OCD, we have absolutely definite biological findings associated with those.
“I began to think of all the new DSM-speak and biobabble we were all learning to use at that time, and I thought how much fun it would be to create a parody of a DSM-III mental disorder based on the case of Renfield,” he told the audience.In Noll’s joke description, Renfield’s Syndrome was defined as involving a traumatic childhood incident involving blood.
“I'm sorry to say, and this isn’t very clinical or very sophisticated or academic, but some people are just fucking nuts,” he stated bluntly. “Not everything can be categorized.”
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