title: Erotic paranoid reaction, the imaginary lover, and the benign conspiracy.
abstract: This paper describes how an erotic paranoid reaction, when linked to fantasies of benign conspiratorial persecution by the hospital and the milieu, might merge as the grandiose messiah-complex.
authors.affiliation: School of Humanities, New York Institute of Technology, New York 10023.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Goldwert
mesh_terms: D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003702:Delusions / Q000523:psychology*; D005201:Fantasy; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008149:Love; D010259:Paranoid Disorders / Q000523:psychology*