Erotomania in males

Taylor, Pamela Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3998-6095, Mahendra, B. and Gunn, John 1983. Erotomania in males. Psychological Medicine 13 (03) , pp. 645-650. 10.1017/S0033291700048054

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Abstract

In anglophonic countries erotomania has traditionally been regarded as a female disorder of little more than curiosity value. The French literature recognizes the disorder in males, but as a rarity. In a recently collected group of violent male offenders the syndrome proved to be fairly common. The offending behaviour was invariably triggered by the core symptom. A description is provided of four cases whose level of aggression was low but appeared to be directly related to the firmness with which the delusion of being loved was held. The disorder of these men can be regarded as a variant of one of the major functional psychoses, but for the purposes of predicting behaviour and management there may be advantages in treating it as a syndrome in a similar taxonomic category as that of morbid jealousy.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	0033-2917
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2022 10:35
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/85409

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