Diagnosis and Classification of Erotomania

Wood, Brian E.; Poe, Richard O.

doi:10.1176/ajp.147.10.1388-a

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“…Major mood disorders. Erotomania has been noted in association with unipolar and bipolar affective disorders [9,13,14], and there is a description based on one case which suggests that it can appear as a variant of pathological mourning [15].…”

Section: Differential Diagnosis Of Erotomaniamentioning

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De Clerambault Syndrome: Current Perspective

Ghosh¹,

Chowdhary²

2021

Anxiety Disorders - The New Achievements

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De Clerambault syndrome is a psychological condition named after Gaetan Gatian De Clerambault in which the sufferer is under the delusion that a certain person is in love with him or her. This is a condition in which the patient, often a single woman, believes than an exalted person is in love with her although the alleged lover may never have spoken to them. Occasionally, isolated delusions of this kind are found in abnormal personality states. Erotomania may also be a feature of paranoid schizophrenia. Sometimes, schizophrenia may begin with a circumscribed delusion of a fantasy lover, and subsequently delusions may become more diffuse, and hallucinations may develop. This chapter will focus on the role of technological advancements in the origin of this syndrome in various age groups.

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De Clerambault Syndrome: Current Perspective

Ghosh¹,

Chowdhary²

2021

Anxiety Disorders - The New Achievements

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Antidepressive effects of traditional and second generation antipsychotics: a review of the clinical data

Möller¹

2005

Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci

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For a long time,in the context of depressive symptoms in schizophrenia traditional neuroleptics were mostly discussed with respect to possible depressiogenic side effects, although some studies argued that they may also have certain antidepressive effects. However, this was not proven at that time in placebo-controlled studies. Placebo-controlled studies performed in recent years have shown that second generation antipsychotics have antidepressive effects which are significantly stronger than those of the traditional neuroleptics. In addition, it was demonstrated that this antidepressive effect can only partially be explained as being secondary to the improvement of positive and negative symptoms, and is apparently predominantly due to a direct (primary) effect on depressive symptoms. It is of special relevance in this context that the antidepressive effect of second generation antipsychotics was recently demonstrated in depression. The positive results from some studies in bipolar depression are especially impressive and underline the antidepressive potencies of novel antipsychotics beyond the spectrum of schizophrenia.

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