De Clerambault's syndrome

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

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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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bizarre delusion delusion delusion of grandeur delusion of negation delusion of persecution delusion of reference	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. Headmaster tells how this stalker made his life hell; School chief ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England) HIDDEN LOVE - LOVE SICK (Channel 4) IF people in love are ruled by passion, those with de Clerambault's syndrome are imprisoned by madness. Madly in love with a notion of a stranger; LAST NIGHT by Dingwall, John / Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) It even has a name, De Clerambault's Syndrome, after a noted French psychiatrist who has studied the condition. Thin line between love and hate by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)	DBS DC DCA DCAD DCC gene DCIS DCR DCT DD DD Palmer DDAVP ddC DDD pacing DDDR ddI DDP DDS DDST DDT DDT poisoning DDVP DDx DE De Bakey de Bruin spatula De Clerambault's syndrome de Lange's syndrome De Minimis Doctrine De Morgan's spots de Morsier's syndrome de Pezzer's catheter De Qi de Quervain's disease de Quervain's fracture de Quervain's thyroiditis de qui de Vita pin De Vries de- de-epicardialization De-Identification de-lead DEA deactivation deacylase dead dead animal disposal Dead Arm Syndrome DEAD Box Protein Dead Fetus Syndrome Dead Foetus Syndrome	De Bruijn graph De Bruijn notation De Bruijn, Van Aardenne-Ehrenfest, Smith, Tutte De Bruin Financiële Diensten BV de Bruin spatula de Brun-van Eckstein rearrangement De Bruyn, Cornelis de Burgos, Julia De Bury Motoservice De Camp De Camp De Candolle, Augustin Pyrame De Carava, Roy De Castro De Castro DE CELL De Cervantes De Chantal, d'Amour, Fortier De Chardin De Chazal du Mée De Chirico De Chirico De Chirico, Giorgio De Chirico, Giorgio De Clearambault syndrome De Clearambault syndrome De Clerambault syndrome De Clerambault syndrome De Clérambault Syndrome De Clérambault Syndrome De Clerambault's syndrome De Clercq Media Group de Cleves, Princess de Clèves, Princess De Coelesti Hierarchia de Colmar, Charles Xavier Thomas De Combinatie van Factoren De Commerciele Club Friesland De Comp Hardware Netzwerke De Condate à Lyon Confluence De Condorcet De Condorcet De Coningh, Philips De contemptu mundi De contumace capiendo De Cordova Bend Estates De Coster, Charles Théodore Henri de Coverly, Major De Crayer, Gaspar de Creeft, José De Danann De dansk-vestindiske Øer De dansk-vestindiske Øer De Danske Skytteforeninger De Danske Spritfabrikker De Danske Sukkerfabrikker

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bizarre delusion
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delusion of grandeur
delusion of negation
delusion of persecution
delusion of reference

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.

Headmaster tells how this stalker made his life hell; School chief ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

HIDDEN LOVE - LOVE SICK (Channel 4) IF people in love are ruled by passion, those with de Clerambault's syndrome are imprisoned by madness.

Madly in love with a notion of a stranger; LAST NIGHT by Dingwall, John / Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)

It even has a name, De Clerambault's Syndrome, after a noted French psychiatrist who has studied the condition.

Thin line between love and hate by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)

De Bruijn graph
De Bruijn notation
De Bruijn, Van Aardenne-Ehrenfest, Smith, Tutte
De Bruin Financiële Diensten BV
de Bruin spatula
de Brun-van Eckstein rearrangement
De Bruyn, Cornelis
de Burgos, Julia
De Bury Motoservice
De Camp
De Camp
De Candolle, Augustin Pyrame
De Carava, Roy
De Castro
De Castro
DE CELL
De Cervantes
De Chantal, d'Amour, Fortier
De Chardin
De Chazal du Mée
De Chirico
De Chirico
De Chirico, Giorgio
De Chirico, Giorgio
De Clearambault syndrome
De Clearambault syndrome
De Clerambault syndrome
De Clerambault syndrome
De Clérambault Syndrome
De Clérambault Syndrome

De Clerambault's syndrome

De Clercq Media Group
de Cleves, Princess
de Clèves, Princess
De Coelesti Hierarchia
de Colmar, Charles Xavier Thomas
De Combinatie van Factoren
De Commerciele Club Friesland
De Comp Hardware Netzwerke
De Condate à Lyon Confluence
De Condorcet
De Condorcet
De Coningh, Philips
De contemptu mundi
De contumace capiendo
De Cordova Bend Estates
De Coster, Charles Théodore Henri
de Coverly, Major
De Crayer, Gaspar
de Creeft, José
De Danann
De dansk-vestindiske Øer
De dansk-vestindiske Øer
De Danske Skytteforeninger
De Danske Spritfabrikker
De Danske Sukkerfabrikker

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