DE CLÉRAMBAULT SYNDROME

De Clérambault syndrome: translation

   The eponym de Clérambault syndrome refers to the French psychiatrist Gaëtan Georges Gatian de Clérambault (1852-1934). It was introduced in 1936 by the Swiss neurologist Georges de Morsier (1894-1982) to denote a hallucinatory state or syndrome characterized by "auditory and "visual hallucinations occurring in the context of chronic " psychosis, which had previously been described by de Clérambault in the context of his work on mental " automatisms. It should be noted that the eponym de Clérambault syndrome is also used to denote a delusional syndrome characterized by erotomania.

   References

   ffytche, D.H. (2007). Visual hallucinatory syndromes: Past, present, and future. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 9, 173-189.

   Starobinski, J. (1983). Georges de Morsier (1894-1982). Gesnerus, 40, 335-338.