PubMed · 14925586
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J QUIVY. 1951. [Phantom pregnancy].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14925586/
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Although current models of delusion converge in proposing that delusions are based on unusual experiences, they differ in the role that they accord experience in the formation of delusions. On some accounts, the experience comprises the very content of the delusion, whereas on other accounts the delusion is adopted in an attempt to explain an unusual experience. We call these the endorsement and explanationist models, respectively. We examine the debate between endorsement and explanationist models with respect to the 'alien control' delusion. People with delusions of alien control believe that their actions and/or thoughts are being controlled by an external agent. Some accounts of alien control (e.g., ) are best thought of in explanationist terms; other accounts (e.g., ) seem more suited to an endorsement approach. We argue that recent cognitive and neurophysiological evidence favours an endorsement model of the delusion of alien control.
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De Clèrambault's syndrome (or erotomania) consists in a delusional conviction, by the patient, in which someone of higher social status has fallen in love with him or her. Sexual privation can be an important psychodynamic factor on the development of this condition, but organic factors related to its genesis continue on investigation. This study revises the most important aspects that the literature brings us about this disease and its causes. The databases MEDLINE and LILACS have been consulted, and the most appropriate articles were examined. It is established that erotomania is not much found in the scientific literature, and, probably, it isn't as rare as it has been proposed. The major part of its etiologic explanation is based on psychodynamic factors, without, however, confirmed relation of cause with its clinic presentation. The progress in the neurobiologic researches will improve, perhaps, the accuracy of diagnose and treatment of these patients.