title: [On the problem of erotomania].
abstract: Ten cases of erotomania with a clinical picture determined by isolated erotic delusion have been examined. Three stages in the disease course (catathymic, delusion systematization and residual) have been recognized. While diagnostic evaluating, an accordance of the disorders with Clerambault's syndrome in disease debut and an increase of erotomanic paranoia symptoms in pathological process development were taken into account. Premorbid personality abnormalities of schizoid spectrum, catathymic character of delusion with affective component in its formation, narrow range and concrete content of persecution ideas, expansive manifestations in the patient behavior and favorable outcome were found to characterize the isolated erotomania. The existence of special marginal types of erotomania, not corresponding to atypical paranoia spectrum (paranoia, paranomic schizophrenia) is assumed. Most of the patients were diagnosed as affected with schizotypic disorder (slow-progredient schizophrenia).
authors.forename: E V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Pinaeva
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D007174:Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D004882:Erotica; D005260:Female; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012720:Severity of Illness Index
vernacular_title: K probleme érotomanii.