Erotomania in a Saudi woman.
A case of de Clérambault syndrome, secondary to paranoid schizophrenia, in a Saudi woman is documented. Cultural factors were found ineffective in modifying or preventing symptoms. Erotomania appeared to arise from the same dynamics as those of the Western patients and to follow the same pattern.
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Riyadh Armed Forces Hospital, Saudi Arabia.
D000328:Adult; D001504:Beauty; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003702:Delusions / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008149:Love; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012529:Saudi Arabia; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000523:psychology*; D012931:Social Environment