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Erotomania in a Saudi Woman

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

A. El-Assra
A. El-Assra*
Affiliation:
Riyadh Armed Forces Hospital/W947, PO Box 7897, Riyadh 11159, Saudi Arabia
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Abstract

A case of de Cléambault syndrome, secondary to paranoid schizophrenia, in a Saudi woman is documented. Cultural factors were found ineffective in modifying or preventing symptoms. Erotomania appeared to arise from the same dynamics as those of the Western patients and to follow the same pattern.

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Brief Reports
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue 4 , October 1989 , pp. 553 - 555
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1989 

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