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Klinik Tıp Bilimleri, vol.6, no.1, pp.36-39, 2018 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Erotomania is also called de Clérambault's syndrome, after the French psychiatrist Gaetan Gatian de Clérambault (1872–1934), who published a comprehensive review pa- per on the subject (Les Psychoses Passionelles) in 1921. De Clérambault’s Syndrome is a syndrome whose hallmark is an elaborate, rare, systematized delusion; specifically, the patient becomes convinced that she or he is passionately loved by another person. In general, the delusion is associated with romantic love rather than sexual attraction. The patients are usually women from modest backgrounds, while the percevied lovers are generally older men of distinctly higher social and financial status who are almost inevitably married and unavailable. The onset of the symptoms can be sudden and of- ten becomes the central focus of the affected person’s life. Although it has not been known since the time of Hippocrates, information on the course, treatment, and treatment of how this disorder was first described by De Clerambault is limited. This paper discusses ae- tiological, clinical and treatment aspects of the syndrome with reference to a typical case who is 52 [year]s, widowed, unemployed, graduated from primary school and has a de- lusion that she was loved by a physician.