Homosexual erotomania

Erotomania: two case reports.

Two patients who developed the symptoms of erotomania were treated by the University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur in 1982-1983. One had the primary erotomania of de Clerambaults syndrome while the other suffered from erotomania as a secondary symptom which was part of the symptomatology of her primary illness of schizophrenia. Their case histories and the current western concepts on erotomania were d...

Genital Self-mutilation and Erotomania

The case of a 28-year-old woman with paranoid schizophrenia is reported who presented with erotomania and who had injured her external genitals in an attempt to stop coenaesthetic dysaesthesias. The implications of the symptoms are discussed with reference to relevant literature (German J Psychiatry 2005:8:38-41).

Modeling erotomania delusion in the laboratory with hypnosis.

Erotomania is the delusional belief that one is loved from afar by another person (the target). This study used hypnosis as a novel cognitive neuropsychological research tool to model erotomania. The authors developed 2 versions of a hypnotic erotomania suggestion and tested their impact by asking subjects to recall and interpret a story featuring ambiguous scenarios. They also challenged the d...

Society and the Homosexual

(and sometimes encouraged). It is curious that thisgeneration's remarkable increase of freedom in discussing other forms of sexual behaviour has not extended to homosexuality. Mr. Westwood's book is a very sincere and forceful attempt towards more instruction and more rational behaviour. He reiterates the findings of the Kinsey report that 37% of the male population of U.S.A. has had some homos...

Suicide among homosexual youth.