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erotomania
(redirected from De Clerambault's syndrome)

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erotomania /ero·to·ma·nia/ (-ma´ne-ah)
1. a type of delusional disorder in which the subject harbors a delusion that a particular person is deeply in love with them; lack of response is rationalized, and pursuit and harassment may occur.
2. occasionally, hypersexuality.erotoman´ic

e·ro·to·ma·ni·a (-rt-mn-, -rt-)
n.
Excessive sexual desire.

Erotomania
(1) A condition affecting a young woman who believes that an older man of higher socioeconomic status is in love with her. Cf Bovarism
(2) Erotomanic delusion, hypersexuality; A morbid exaggeration of, or preoccupation with sexuoerotic imagery and activity. See Don Juan syndrome, Nymphomania

erotomania [ĕ-rot″o-ma´ne-ah]
1. a disorder in which the subject believes that a person, usually older and of higher social status, is deeply in love with him or her; failure of the object of the delusion to respond to the subject's advances are rationalized, and pursuit and harassment of the object of the delusion may occur.
2. occasionally, hypersexuality.

erotomania
Sexology Hypersexuality A morbid exaggeration of, or preoccupation with sexuoerotic imagery and activity. See Cherambault-Kandinsky syndrome, Don Juan syndrome, Nymphomania.


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David Leigh Jones, defending, said the psychiatric report showed that Mullen was suffering from ``a complex system of delusions'' and paranoid schizophrenia, the main feature of which was erotomania or de Clerambault's syndrome.
HIDDEN LOVE - LOVE SICK (Channel 4) IF people in love are ruled by passion, those with de Clerambault's syndrome are imprisoned by madness.
It even has a name, De Clerambault's Syndrome, after a noted French psychiatrist who has studied the condition.
 
 
 
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