Erotomania, also known as de Clérambault's syndrome, is a relatively uncommon paranoid condition that is characterized by an individual's delusions of another person being infatuated with them. It is listed in the DSM-5 as a subtype of a delusional disorder. Commonly, the onset of erotomania is sudden, and the course is chronic.
Erotomania
Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault, French psychiatrist from whom erotomania gets its other name, de Clérambault's syndrome.
Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault
Gaëtan Henri Alfred Edouard Léon Marie Gatian de Clérambault was a French psychiatrist.
Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault