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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAny psychologists, etc., here, what would you say was Glenn Close's character in FATAL ATTRACTION's
diagnosis?
olddots
(10,237 posts)but as a licensed owner of a home made Orgone Chamber I think Glenn was a deeply miss cast favorite of some big agent.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)Ptah
(33,024 posts)Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)Erotomania is a type of delusion in which the affected person believes that another person, usually a stranger, high-status or famous person, is in love with him or her. The illness often occurs during psychosis, especially in patients with schizophrenia, delusional disorder or bipolar mania.[1] During an erotomanic episode, the patient believes that a "secret admirer" is declaring his or her affection to the patient, often by special glances, signals, telepathy, or messages through the media. Usually the patient then returns the perceived affection by means of letters, phone calls, gifts, and visits to the unwitting recipient. Even though these advances are unexpected and often unwanted, any denial of affection by the object of this delusional love is dismissed by the patient as a ploy to conceal the forbidden love from the rest of the world.[2]
The term erotomania is often confused with "obsessive love", obsession with unrequited love, or hypersexuality. Obsessive love is not erotomania by definition. Erotomania is also called de Clérambault's syndrome, after the French psychiatrist Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault (18721934), who published a comprehensive review paper on the subject (Les Psychoses Passionelles) in 1921.
more at link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotomania