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{{b|Doctors Herding Cats: The Misadventures of Modern Medicine and Psychology with NonHuman Identities}} is a paper about [[otherkin]] and [[therians]] written by researcher [[Pedro Feijó]] and published by the {{w|University of Cambridge}}.  In it, Feijó traces a history of the interaction between medicine, psychology, and "nonhuman identities" dating back to latter half of the 19th century and accounts of {{w|clinical lycanthropy|lycanthropy}}.  It goes on to discuss "[https://web.archive.org/web/20190601023841/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_dysphoria species dysphoria]" as coined by researchers studying cases of {{w|zoophilia|preferential bestiality}}.  Finally it touches on the history of the otherkin, therian, and even [[fictionkin]] communities.

== See also ==
* [[Why be human when you can be otherkin?]]