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Homo‐erotomania for a delusional parent: erotomania with Capgras and Fregoli syndromes in a young male with learning difficulties
Author(s) -
Mann J.,
Foreman D. M.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1996.tb00630.x
Subject(s) - psychology , delusion , psychodynamics , etiology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , capgras syndrome , psychoanalysis , subject (documents) , developmental psychology , object (grammar) , consciousness , psychiatry , psychotherapist , neuroscience , library science , computer science , linguistics , philosophy
A 19‐year‐old male with learning difficulties exhibited erotomania associated with first‐rank symptoms of schizophrenia; the subject responded to neuroleptic medication. The love object was a male neighbour believed by the subject to be his father. This is the first recorded case where erotic desire has been coupled with the delusion that the object is also the parent of the sufferer. We propose a multifactorial aetiology, considering the possibility of complex psychodynamics in the presence of learning difficulties.