Erotomania
As erotomania or love delusion is delusional strong, irresistible love for a most unattainable person designated (eg. As an alien, a superscript or very famous person). This phenomenon is also known as Clérambault syndrome after the French prison psychiatrist and photographer Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault (1872–1934) .
The erotoman is firmly convinced that the loved one hides their love for him, but still makes it known through secret signals. Erotomania should not be confused with obsessive love , one-sided and unrequited love, or hypersexuality . Isolated erotomania is rare; it usually occurs as a concomitant symptom of other mental disorders .
Symptoms
An unshakable conviction that love will be returned is nourished by misinterpreted behavior and other signals from the other person. Rejection and attempts at demarcation by the other person are interpreted, for example, as coquetry or an attempt to escape the sexual or other attraction of the erotomaniac. Often he tries to get in contact with the object of his desire, up to stalking .
history
In 1921 Clérambault published a comprehensive description of the disorder as " Les psychoses passionnelles ".
Artistic processing
Movies
- Sadistico ( Play Misty For Me ), United States 1971, by and with Clint Eastwood
- The story of Adèle H. , France 1975, with Isabelle Adjani
- Fatal Attraction ( Fatal Attraction ), United States in 1987, with Glenn Close and Michael Douglas
- Misery , United States 1990, with James Caan and Kathy Bates
- Crazy in love ( A la folie… pas du tout ), France 2002, with Audrey Tautou
- Enduring Love , United Kingdom 2004, with Daniel Craig
- Anna M. , France 2007, with Isabelle Carré
- Obsessed , United States 2009, with Idris Elba , Beyoncé and Ali Larter
- The Death Drug , crime series Lewis - The Oxford Crime , (Season 5, Episode 3, 2013)
music
- Dream Theater : A Mind Beside Itself Part I: Erotomania from "Awake", EastWestRecords, 1994
Books
- Ferdinand von Saar : Leutnant Burda , novella published in 1887. In the novella, Lieutenant Josef Burda falls in love with the Princess von L. From the perspective of a first- person narrator , Burda's delusional interpretations of various events are described in which he obsessively believes Princess von L. return his love.
- Kurt Tucholsky : Gripsholm Castle. (According to Lisa Matthias , the author's beginning erotomania played a role in the creation of the book.)
- Ian McEwan : Loving madness . (Diogenes, 2000. ISBN 3-257-23162-8 )
- Wulf Dorn : Dark delusion . (Heyne, 2011. ISBN 978-3-453-26705-3 )
literature
- Simon Bunke: Erotomania. In: Bettina von Jagow , Florian Steger (Hrsg.): Literature and medicine in a European context. A lexicon. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, Sp. 226–229, ISBN 3-525-21018-3 .
- Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault : Psychoses passionelles. In: Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault. Oeuvre psychiatrique. Jean Fretet (Ed.), Vol. 1. Presses universitaires de France, Paris 1942.
- Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault: L'érotomanie. Synthélabo, Le Plessis-Robinson 1993.
Individual evidence
- ↑ SF Signer: "Les psychoses passionnelles" reconsidered: a review of de Clérambault's cases and syndrome with respect to mood disorders. In: Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience: JPN. Volume 16, Number 2, July 1991, pp. 81-90, PMID 1911738 , PMC 1188298 (free full text).
