ABSTRACT

This chapter presents a case of a 20-year-old mathematics student who is referred by the university counselling service. He is currently suspended from his studies due to alleged harassment of a female student. speaks in a monotonous voice and becomes much more animated when discussing his love for the female student and his hobby of playing computer games. His mood appears normal and there have not been any recent changes in his sleep pattern or appetite. Throughout the interview he professes his love for the female student and says that this is mutual but that she cannot show others how she feels because they would be jealous of their 'special relationship'. This stalking behaviour may be due to erotomania, also known as de Clerambault syndrome, in which a person falsely believes, with delusional intensity, that another person is in love with him or her. The main management of erotomania is treatment of the underlying disorder.