While Count Dracula is discussed sometimes as a representation of disease, the question here is what disease or disorder, psychological, physical or both, he might have had himself – an issue discussed both in the book, and by commentators, for whom this seems to be an endlessly attractive topic. In the novel, Dracula’s psychopathology is earnestly discussed by Mina and Van Helsing, who decide that, following Lombroso, he has a criminal ‘Child-mind’. Others have drawn attention to his strange fears and obsessions.