Doctor Declrambo's (spelling could be a problem)Declarmbo Syndrome. I
need information on it perhaps some test cases that come up easily or
how to find them. Declarmbo Syndrome is when someone obssessively
to the point of psychotic behaviour can't rid themselves of someone
who does'nt want them in return. Especially in extreme love cases.  It was best
exemplified in Truffaut's STroy of Adele H.

Hello, Gigi.

I am certain that the condition for which you seek information is "De
Clérambault's syndrome," named after the French physician Gaétan de
Clérambault (the name is pronounced roughly like "duh clair am bo.")
This condition is also known as "erotomania" and as "Simenon's
syndrome." I have gathered some information for you, including several
case descriptions. For copyright reasons, I am posting only a brief
excerpt from each source; for more in-depth information, I suggest
that you read the articles in their entirety.

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"Clérambault's syndrome
 Also known as:
 de Clérambault's syndrome
 Simenon's syndrome

Synonyms:
Erotic delusion, erotomania, paranoia erotica, pure erotomania,
psychose passionelle.

Associated persons:

Gaétan Henri Alfred Edouard Léon Marie Gatian de Clérambault
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon

Description:
A condition in which a woman becomes deluded that a certain man is in
love with her. The man, with whom only a brief acquaintance exists, is
usually older and of higher social status. The man, who has done
nothing to stimulate or encourage such a belief, is at first unaware
of it but is later likely to be embarrassed by telephone calls.
letters and amorous advances."

Who Named It
http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/2539.html

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"Erotomania or de Clerambault's Syndrome is usually defined as a
delusional syndrome in which the patient--generally a woman--is
convinced that an exalted person is in love with her... The diagnosis
of de Clerambault's Syndrome has been held up to very skeptical
scrutiny in recent years, and some psychiatrists doubt it is a
disorder in its own right--rather, many such patients turn out to have
paranoid schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. For references on this,
see SF Signer, J Psychiatry Neurosci 1991;16:81-90; and Ellis &
Mellsop, Br J Psychiatry 1985;146:90-93."

Mental Health InfoSource
http://www.mhinfosource.com/expert/exp1101501b.html

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"Erotomania is a delusion of passion.

In this condition the patient, often a single woman, believes than an
exalted person is in love with her... The patient may become a
nuisance to the subject and the police may get involved in trying to
keep her from pestering the subject. Still she may see this action as
a paradoxical sign of affection. The patient may tenaciously continue
to pester the subject and might develop delusions of persecution
following the delusions of passion.

This condition was originally described by de Clerambault as having a
phase of hope followed by a phase of resentment."

GPnotebook
http://www.gpnotebook.co.uk/cache/1174798341.htm

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"Psychiatrists do not know how prevalent delusional erotomania is, but
recently they've come to believe it is not as rare as originally
thought. Also called Clerambault Syndrome, after the French
psychiatrist who first identified it in 1921, the disorder is
diagnosed far more often in women. The patient becomes fixated on a
person and despite rebuffs, becomes convinced there is a romantic
relationship.

It is most common in unmarried women who have few social skills,
consider themselves unattractive and are employed in low-paying jobs.
They often are lonely and withdrawn. Men with the disorder are more
likely to become violent than women, particularly if they have a
history of substance abuse or mental illness."

Detroit Free Press
http://www.freep.com/news/locoak/qwixbox28.htm

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"Erotomania can be defined as a psychological disorder in which the
afflicted relentlessly pursues the notion that the object of his/her
affection reciprocates his/her romantic feelings and/or fantasies.
This obsession with the desired individual continues long after that
individual has asserted that he/she is not interested in pursuing a
romantic relationship with the afflicted. Consequently, erotomaniacs
tend to stalk their victims. It has been postulated that those who
stalk suffer from a basic fault in their capacity to have
relationships with others. (Lipson et al., 1998). Though brought to
light with the Tarasoff case, Erotomania continues to be considerably
new in the literature and consequently little research has been done
to suggest any consistent hypothesis as to causality. Characteristic
of the erotomaniac (generally across the board) are the following:
irrationality, a tendancy toward impulsive actions, obsessiveness,
paranoia, psychotic tendancies. Typically the erotomaniac shares
certain behavioral characteristics consistent with that of a
Borderline."

Personal page of Marguerite L. Malain
http://www.angelfire.com/ga/random/erotomanic.html

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"De Clerambault's syndrome was once regarded as a female disorder
(with male victims), however, more recently it has been recognised in
male patients.  This type of stalker has real potential for violence
when their 'love' is persistently unrequited by the victim (referred
to as the 'love object').

The perpetrator may become aware of their victim through various forms
of the media (cinema, TV, radio, newspapers, etc.) and establishes a
delusional fantasy in which they have a special or unique relationship
with the victim.  These fantasies can be of an extreme sexual nature -
sometimes reflected in the way the stalker attempts to communicate
with the victim."

Intelligence & Security Executive
http://www.intel-sec.demon.co.uk/index.htm?ref=stalking/motives/p5-204.htm

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Some discussions of specific instances of erotomania/De Clerambault's
syndrome:

Intelligence & Security Executive
http://www.intel-sec.demon.co.uk/index.htm?ref=stalking/cases/sc005.htm

Intelligence & Security Executive
http://www.intel-sec.demon.co.uk/index.htm?ref=stalking/motives/p5-204.htm

Website of Andrew Vachss
http://www.vachss.com/help_text/archive/female_stalkers.html

Mental Health Aspects of Developmental Disabilities
http://www.mhaspectsofdd.com/abstracts/Vol2Num1/2.htm

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Search terms used:

"de clérambault's syndrome"
"de clerambault's syndrome"
"declerambault's syndrome" 
"simenon's syndrome
"erotomania"

Google Web Search: "de clerambault's syndrome"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22de+clerambault%27s+syndrome

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please request clarification; I'll be glad to offer further assistance
before you rate my answer.

Best wishes,
pinkfreud

gigi88...

pinkfreud-ga and I were researching this at the same time,
so let me add what I found, as well:

The common spelling is De Clerambault's syndrome, though
the pdf file in which I first located a reference to it
(on the The Royal College of Psychiatrists' website),
spelled it deCl’erambaults’ syndrome:

"Originally erotomania (or deCl’erambaults’ syndrome)
 was a term reserved for women who held the delusional
 belief that a man, typically of a higher social class,
 was deeply in love with them. And DSM-IV currently
 classifies it as a delusional disorder of the erotomanic
 type which accounts for a very limited subset of
 episodes of stalking."
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/college/faculty/g&c4.pdf

Searching under the spelling DeClerambault's syndrome
also results in a few hits, one of which is quite 
useful, being the 'erotomania resources' page of 
of the website of Andrew Vachss:
http://www.vachss.com/help_text/erotomania.html

...which has a link to a page on De Clerambault's syndrome
on the Intelligence and Security Executive site which notes:

"De Clerambault's syndrome was once regarded as a female
 disorder (with male victims), however, more recently it
 has been recognised in male patients.  This type of stalker
 has real potential for violence when their "love" is
 persistently unrequited by the victim (referred to as
 the "love object")."
http://www.intel-sec.demon.co.uk/index.htm?ref=stalking/motives/p5-204.htm

This page has links to two case studies.

The first is the case of a bodybuilder who was obsessed with
Steven Spielberg:
http://www.intel-sec.demon.co.uk/index.htm?ref=stalking/cases/sc005.htm

...with a link to a news article here:
http://www.intel-sec.demon.co.uk/index.htm?ref=stalking/cases/articles/sa002.htm

The second case involved a former air-hostess obsessed with
Malcolm Stewart, leader of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Orchestra:
http://www.intel-sec.demon.co.uk/index.htm?ref=stalking/cases/sc011.htm

...with a link to a news article here:
http://www.intel-sec.demon.co.uk/index.htm?ref=stalking/cases/articles/sa013.htm


This excerpt from a pdf file, found on the website of
The Hong Kong College of Family Physicians, documents
another famous case:

"Another name for this type of delusional disorder is
 de Clerambault’s syndrome, which is a delusion
 that another person is in love with the individual. It
 occurs more often in women (Old Maid’s Insanity),
 but can occur also in men. The imagined lover is
 usually unattainable because of celebrity or marital
 status, can be homo- or heterosexual, and sometimes
 may be a ‘phantom’ that does not really exist. The
 patient is convinced that the other person initiated the
 relationship, although there has been little or no
 actual contact between the two. In fact, the patient
 will avoid the chance of actual contact, and the love
 letters or presents usually remain unsent. If indeed
 there is contact and the inevitable rejection occurs,
 the patient usually makes excuses for their beloved,
 but occasionally there is angry acting-out behaviour,
 including stalking, harassment, assault, kidnapping
 and murder. The most famous case is that of John
 Hinckley Jr., who attempted to assassinate former US
 President Ronald Reagan in order to attract the
 attention of a famous female film star towards whom
 he had erotic delusional feelings. Gestures by the
 other person are often misinterpreted as evidence of
 passion; rarely there is even an incubus syndrome,
 which is a feeling (tactile hallucinations perhaps) that
 there are sexual visits during the night."
http://www.hkcfp.org.hk/article/2001/jun/20010604.pdf


On attorney Claussen Miller's website is a pdf file
of a Claussen Miller newsletter which documents
another interesting case involving the use of the
legal system:

"Andy Laskin of CM’s New York office has co-authored,
 with Robert Lloyd Goldstein, M.D., J.D., an article
 titled 'DeClerambault’s Syndrome (Erotomania) and
 Claims of Psychiatric Malpractice.'
 The article will be published in the July 2002 issue
 of the Journal Of Forensic Sciences.
 Erotomania is a delusional disorder in which a person
 (usually a woman) holds the extreme and unfounded
 belief that a particular man (usually older, successful,
 and of elevated social status) is in love with her;
 the woman typically acts on her delusions through
 persistent telephone calls, letters, surveillance,
 stalking, and other obsessive behaviors.
 The authors discuss the implications of such a person
 using the legal system to retaliate against the object
 of her delusion when her behaviors are rejected.
 They do so in the context of a case defended by Mr. Laskin
 in which CM’s client – a psychiatrist – was sued for
 malpractice after he rebuffed the advances of a patient
 who suffered from erotomania and had made him the object
 of her delusions. After a full trial, which included the
 testimony of Dr. Goldstein as the defendant’s expert,
 the jury returned a unanimous verdict for the defendant.
 For additional information or to obtain a copy of the
 article, please contact Mr. Laskin at (212) 805-3900
 or via e-mail at alaskin@clausen.com".
http://www.clausen.com/PDF_Docs/Publications/NYCMRD_2002v2.pdf


Last, but not least is Wikipedia's page on erotomania:

"Erotomania or De Clerambault Syndrome is a rare disorder
 in which a person holds a delusional belief that another
 person, usually of a higher social status, is in love
 with them."

"Erotomania is also called De Clerambault Syndrome, after
 a French psychiatrist who published a comprehensive review
 paper on the subject (Les Psychoses Passionelles) in 1942." 

"Early references to the condition can be found in the work
 of Hippocrates, Erasistratus, Plutarch and Galen. In the
 psychiatric literature it was first referred to in 1623
 in a treatise by Jacques Ferrand (Maladie d'Amour ou
 Melancolie Erotique) and has been variously called
 "old maid's psychosis", "erotic paranoia" and "erotic
 self-referent delusions" until the common usage of the
 terms erotomania and De Clerambault's syndrome."
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search=erotomania&go=Go

And, of course, there are many more links available in the
Google search results for:

"De Clerambault's" syndrome
://www.google.com/search?q=%22De+Clerambault%27s%22+syndrome


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