The British Journal of Psychiatry 151: 853-855 (1987)
© 1987 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Two cases of erotomania (de Clerambault's syndrome) in bipolar affective disorder
SF Signer and RP Swinson
Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Two female patients with longstanding bipolar affective disorder
demonstrated de Clerambault's paradigm of erotomania during the euthymic
phase of their illness. Although a diagnosis of schizophrenia or paranoid
disorder is often given, a review of the literature shows that many cases
have features of a major affective disorder, probably bipolar affective
disorder and its spectrum.