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Erotomania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Erotomania is a type of delusion in which the affected person believes that another person is in love with him or her. The illness often occurs during psychosis, especially in patients with schizophr...
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Erotomania can be defined as a psychological disorder in which the afflicted relentlessly pursues the notion that the object of his/her affection reciprocates his/her romantic feelings and/or fantasies.
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Subjects with primary erotomania and erotomania secondary to other psychiatric diagnoses were identified using DSM-IV criteria. Ellis and Mellsop's criteria were found to be useful in assessing erotomania but we could not replicate Seeman's fixed and recurrent groups.
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Puts a whole new slant on the saying 'crazy in love'. Erotomania is a condition where a person is convinced that a stranger is in love with them. ... Andrew is our first stop on the descent into erotomania. He is a 38 year old married man with 2 children. He must remain anonymous as the woman he's desperately in love with...
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Online Medical Dictionary and glossary with medical definitions ... Erotomania: The false but persistent belief that one is loved by a person (often a famous or prominent person), or the pathologically obsessive pursuit of a disinterested object of love.
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A case of homosexual erotomania is described in a patient with AIDS-related complex. ... A case of homosexual erotomania is described in a patient with AIDS-related complex. Direct involvement of the central nervous system was thought an unlikely cause, as specific stressors appeared to have precipitated a reactive psychosis.
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A woman developed the delusional syndrome of erotomania 4 years after subarachnoid hemorrhage from a ruptured basilar artery aneurysm. ... Although no cause-and-effect relationship can be established between the neurologic event and erotomania in this patient, the possible neuropsychiatric correlates of this syndrome...
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