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De Clérambault's Syndrome in Organic Affective Disorder

Two Cases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Stephen F. Signer  and
Jeffrey L. Cummings
Stephen F. Signer*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa
Jeffrey L. Cummings
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, University of California; Neurobehavior Unit, West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center (Brentwood Division)
*
Royal Ottawa Hospital, 1145 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1Z 7K4
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Abstract

Two patients with erotomania (de CIérambault's syndrome) associated with epilepsy and head trauma are presented. The delusion appeared during periods of mania or hypomania and partially remitted during depression or euthymia. Erotomania may be seen in a wide variety of psychotic conditions, including those that are organically based.

Type
Brief Reports
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 151 , Issue 3 , September 1987 , pp. 404 - 407
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1987 

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