Editing Erotomania (section)

==History==
[[File:Gaetan Gatian de Clerambault.jpg|thumb|[[Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault]], [[French people|French]] [[psychiatrist]] from whom erotomania gets its other name, de Clérambault's syndrome.]]
Early references to the condition can be found in the work of [[Hippocrates]], Freud (1911), [[French people|French]] [[psychiatrist]] [[Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault]] (1942),<ref name=":1" /> [[Erasistratus]], [[Plutarch]] and [[Galen]]. Parisian physician, Bartholomy Pardoux (1545-1611) covered the topics of nymphomania and erotomania.<ref name=":1" /> In 1623, erotomania was referred to in a treatise by Jacques Ferrand<ref name=":1" /> (Maladie d'amour ou Mélancolie érotique) and has been called "erotic paranoia" and "erotic self-referent delusion" until the common usage of the terms erotomania and de Clérambault's syndrome. In 1971 and 1977, M.V. Seeman referred to the disorder as "phantom lover syndrome" and "psychotic erotic transference reaction and delusional loving".<ref name=":1" /> Emil Kraepelin and Bernard also wrote of erotomania and more recently, Winokur, Kendler, and Munro have contributed to knowledge on the disorder.<ref name=":2" />

G. E. Berrios and N. Kennedy outlined in "Erotomania: a conceptual history" (2002)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Berrios GE, Kennedy N|date=2002|title=Erotomania: a conceptual history|journal=History of Psychiatry|volume=13 (52, pt4)|issue=52 Pt 4|pages=381–400|doi=10.1177/0957154X0201305202|pmid=12638595|s2cid=24663481}}</ref> several periods of history through which the definition of erotomania has changed considerably:
*Classical times – early eighteenth century: General disease caused by unrequited love
*Early eighteenth-beginning of nineteenth century: Practise of excess physical love (akin to [[nymphomania]] or [[satyriasis]])
*Early nineteenth century – beginning twentieth century: Unrequited love as a form of mental disease
*Early twentieth century – present: Delusional belief of "being loved by someone else"

In one case, erotomania was reported in a patient who had undergone surgery for a ruptured [[cerebral aneurysm]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Anderson |first1=CA |last2=Camp |first2=J |last3=Filley |first3=C.M.|date=1998|title=Erotomania after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: case report and literature review|journal=J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci|volume=10|issue=3 |pages=330–337|doi=10.1176/jnp.10.3.330 |pmid=9706541 }}</ref>