Delusional Jealousy Research Articles

Strategic Reframing in a Case of “Delusional Jealousy”

Drawing on Milton Erickson's utilization approach and the “shifting contexts” epistemology of O'Hanlon & Wilk (1987), the author describes his thinking in dealing with a marital problem of two years duration. The case serves as a useful illustration of how one's epistemological assumptions shape one's actions in a clinical context. The systemic, solution-oriented approach employed appears more parsimonious in resolving the presenting complaint by moving directly toward inducing a shift in the clients’ perceptual/behavioral sets. This approach has much to offer the practitioner in providing a time-efficient framework for rapid problem resolution.

Multidimensional Jealousy

Three studies were conducted to investigate the psychometric properties of the newly developed multidimensional jealousy scale (MJS), which provides separate assessments of cognitive, emotional and behavioural jealousy. Good reliability and validity data were obtained for the scale. It has high internal consistency, as well as a clear factor structure. The three components of jealousy correlate with established jealousy scales. The results also show that emotional jealousy is positively related to love, while cognitive jealousy is negatively related to love. All three components are negatively related to liking. Emotional and behavioural jealousy are negatively related to happiness. Thus, both convergent and discriminant validity are established. The MJS is useful in providing a clearer picture of the relationships between the components of jealousy and various psychological variables than traditional unidimensional measures of jealousy. Practical implications of the scale in detecting pathological jealousy are discussed.

An uncontrolled study of cognitive therapy for morbid jealousy.

Thirteen patients presenting with morbid jealousy were treated using a cognitive approach adapted from Beck's cognitive therapy for depression. Cognitions in morbid jealousy showed the characteristics of automatic thoughts as described by Beck, and were based on faulty assumptions derived from interpretations of past experiences. The cognitive treatment directed mainly at the faulty assumptions resulted in improvements in ten patients and no change in one; two patients dropped out of treatment. The results are considered encouraging.

An Unusual Case of Morbid Jealousy Treated with Role Reversal

Abstract A case of morbid jealousy occurring in the context of an extramarital relationship is reported. The therapeutic strategy used was role reversal, and a satisfactory outcome was achieved. Comments are made on the special features of the case and of the intervention

DSM-III: problems in diagnosing partial forms of multiple personality disorder: discussion paper.

Of all the defence mechanisms, only one — Dissociation — is treated as a separate diagnostic category in the third edition of the ‘Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’ (DSM-III) (American Psychiatric Association 1980). Delusional marital jealousy, for instance, could be classified as one of the projective disorders, but this is not done. A group of disorders based on dissociation should be easily defined and organized, in comparison with the relatively bewildering array of psychotic disturbances. Yet DSM-III does not provide a conceptually coherent set of dissociative diagnoses. This problem in DSM-III is best illustrated by partial forms of multiple personality disorder (MPD) which at present receive the unsatisfactory diagnosis of atypical dissociative disorder. First, the organization of other sections of DSM-III will be discussed.

Sexual jealousy in alcoholics.

A hundred patients referred to an alcoholism service were assessed in terms of sexual jealousy by interview and with a Sexual Jealousy Questionnaire. The overall incidence of sexual jealousy was 35% in men and 31% in women as judged by the interview. Twenty-seven per cent of the men and 15% of the women had morbid jealousy. There was no relationship between sexual jealousy, as measured by the questionnaire, and sexual dysfunction. However, in the men there were inverse relationships between the scores for sexual jealousy and measures of sexual satisfaction and marital stability, and in the women sexual jealousy scores correlated negatively with duration of the marriage and positively with severity of alcohol dependence.

Morbid Jealousy — An Unusual Presentation with the Reciprocal Appearance of Psychopathology in Either Spouse

This report concerns a married couple. The husband presented first to a psychiatrist with delusional jealousy. As his jealousy rapidly subsided with treatment his wife developed a florid paranoid psychosis for which she refused therapy. She then actively intervened to prevent her husband's treatment and as his jealousy returned her psychosis remitted. It is suggested that psychopathology may be more common than is suspected in the partners of jealous subjects and that on occasions one partner may be actively provoking jealous behaviour in the other.

Are there delusions specific for paranoid disorders vs. schizophrenia?

DSM-III proposes that only persecutory delusions and delusions of jealousy can occur in paranoid disorders, all other types of delusions in the absence of an affective syndrome being indicative of schizophrenia. The scant empirical evidence relevant to this issue suggests that the type of delusion on admission is not predictive of outcome in patients with paranoid psychosis. These findings raise questions about the validity of the distinction drawn in DSM-III between types of delusions.

Family murder followed by suicide

Four examples of family murder followed by suicide are presented with relevant clinical data from the coroners' reports. In retrospect it would appear that three of the offenders were suffering from severe depression, and the fourth showed features of morbid jealousy. In each case there were factors suggestive of mental illness apparent before the tragedy. This is consistent with recent studies of murder followed by suicide and of suicide alone, and raises the possibility that psychiatric intervention may have altered the course of events. Though such tragedies may never be totally eliminated it is considered that close co-operation between coroner, forensic pathologist and psychiatrist may promote greater professional understanding of these tragedies, and provide the impetus for the detection and treatment of potentially remediable psychiatric illness.

Wishes, Symptoms and Actions

We want to understand those sentences in which Freud invokes unconscious wishes, thoughts, motives, processes to explain why a patient dreamt a certain dream, forgot a certain name, made a certain slip, is afflicted with certain symptoms, acted or reacted in a certain manner. Particularly we want to understand in what sense symptoms express, fulfil, or gratify unconscious wishes: how Freud believes himself to have explained Miss Lucy's olfactory hallucinations, Fraulein Elisabeth's leg pains, Dora's throat disorders, Hans' fear of horses, the Rat Man's obsessive thoughts and practices, the Wolf Man's constipation, the homosexual girl's choice ofjumping from a height as a means of suicide, the matron's delusions of jealousy, the father-infatuated girl's bedtime rituals, the separated wife's transactions with the tablecloth, and generically: hysterical convulsions, hysterical paralyses, hysterical blindness, phobias, obsessions, compulsions and delusions. This enterprise would involve attempting to elucidate and bring into some intelligible relation with one another the following diverse if not contradictory accounts by Freud and his expositors of just what his theory of the influence of unconscious wishes comes to:

DEVELOPMENT AND COURSE OF DELUSIONAL JEALOUSY IN PROCESS‐SCHIZOPHRENIA

Acta Psychiatrica ScandinavicaVolume 49, Issue s243 p. 58-59 DEVELOPMENT AND COURSE OF DELUSIONAL JEALOUSY IN PROCESS-SCHIZOPHRENIA JOHAN BREMER, JOHAN BREMERSearch for more papers by this author JOHAN BREMER, JOHAN BREMERSearch for more papers by this author First published: August 1973 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1973.tb10484.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume49, Issues243August 1973Pages 58-59 RelatedInformation

Real or imaginary hypophallism: a cause of inferiority feelings and morbid sexual jealousy.

Sexual jealousy is both an attitude of mind and an emotional state: the latter resulting from a blending of emotions aroused by an affront to the instincts of mating, self-assertion and acquisition. Sexual jealousy is of particular interest to the psychiatrist, since in its morbid manifestations it destroys marital harmony (Gillard, 1896) and may lead to homicide or suicide (Mowat, 1966). Sexual jealousy may be regarded as a normal reaction but it is abnormal when: (a) the jealous person is haunted by what the ‘man in the street’ would recognize as a groundless conviction that his or her sexual partner has been, or will be, unfaithful; or (b) jealousy engendered by actual infidelity is of such intensity as to render the person dangerously aggressive. Examples of the second category are Ruth Ellis, who shot dead her unfaithful lover; and Pilar Garcia-Compte, who killed her husband after he had refused to break with his mistress.

SECTION III Miscellaneous

THE CLINICAL COURSE OF DELUSIONAL JEALOUSY IN FEMALES: A follow‐up Study of Cases from a Mental Hospital by J. BremerMORTALITY AND CAUSE OF DEATH IN TWO GROUPS OF PATIENTS ADMITTED TO A PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL by T. S:SON FREYMORTALITY IN PATIENTS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION by H. FORSSMAN AND H. O. ÅKESSONTHE DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS BETWEEN DEPERSONALIZATION AND BORDERLINE SCHIZOPHRENIA by M. AGGERNæSA GLOBAL AMNESIA SYNDROME by T. G. BOLWIG and R. ANDERSENELECTROAVERSION BEHAVIOUR THERAPY (EABT) ‐A NEW APPROACH IN AVERSION THERAPY by U. Malm and L.‐E. Claesson

B. The Study of Morbid Jealousy

Acta Psychiatrica ScandinavicaVolume 43, Issue S202 p. 27-52 B. The Study of Morbid Jealousy First published: June 1968 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1968.tb06184.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume43, IssueS202June 1968Pages 27-52 RelatedInformation

Interaction between the involved persons in pathological jealousy reactions

Interaction between the involved persons in pathological jealousy reactions

Review: Morbid Jealousy and Murder

Review: Morbid Jealousy and Murder

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:BIOGRAPHY Margery Fry. By Enid Huws Jones.CRIMINOLOGY Max Grünhut, 1893–1964. Edited by Hilde Kaufman and others.CRIMINOLOGY Changing Concepts of Crime and its Treatment. Edited and introduced by Hugh J. Klare.CRIMINOLOGY Handwörterbuch der Kriminologie. Rudolf Sieverts (ed.). 2nd edition.CRIMINOLOGY Crime and its Correction. By John P. Conrad.PRISON STUDIES The Defences of the Weak. By Thomas Mathiesen.PRISON STUDIES Society of Women. By Rose Giallombardo.PRISON STUDIES Women's Prison. By David Ward and Gene G. Kassebaum.PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY Ten Studies into Psychopathic Personality. By Michael Craft.PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY Morbid Jealousy and Murder: A Psychiatric Study of Morbidly Jealous Murderers at Broadmoor. By Ronald Rae Mowat.PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY Murder Followed by Suicide. By D. J. West.PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY The Development of Conscience. By Geoffrey M. Stephenson.PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY One in Twenty (A Study of Homosexuality in Men and Women). By Brian Magee.PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY Recidivism: A Deficiency Disease. By Alastair W. MacLeod.PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY Mental Subnormality in London. P.E.P. (by Jean Moncrieff).PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment. By D. W. Winnicott.PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY Normality and Pathology in Childhood. By Anna Freud.PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY Dibs: in Search of Self. By Virginia M. Axline.PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY One Little Boy. By Dorothy M. Baruch.CRIME AND THE CHURCH The Church and the Criminal. By J. Arthur Hoyles.JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE The Trial of Steven Truscott. By Isabel Lebordais.SOCIAL STUDIES Cultural Factors in Delinquency. Edited by T. C. N. Gibbens and Robert H. Ahrenfeldt.SOCIAL STUDIES Delinquency, Social Support and Control Systems. By Hugh J. Klare.SOCIAL STUDIES Five Women. By Tony Parker.SOCIAL STUDIES Teenage Revolution. By Peter Laurie.SOCIAL STUDIES A Manual of Procedure for Application of the Glueck Prediction Table. By Maud M. Craig and Selma Glick.SOCIAL STUDIES The Roots of Evil. By Christopher Hibbert.LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE Social Defence. By Marc Ancel.LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE The Mental Element in Crime. By Glanville L. Williams.LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE East African Law JournalLAW AND JURISPRUDENCE The Language of the Law. By Louis Blom‐Cooper.LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE Abortion and the Law. By Bernard M. Dickens.YOUNG OFFENDERS Borstal Re‐assessed. By Roger Hood.YOUNG OFFENDERS Cottage Six: The Social System of Delinquent Boys in Residential Treatment. By Howard W. Polsky.HOMELESS OFFENDERS Homeless Borstal Boys. By Roger Hood.HOMELESS OFFENDERS Residential Provision for Homeless Discharged Offenders. Report of the Working Party on the place of Voluntary Service in After‐Care.PROBATION Probation and After‐Care (Probation Papers No. 3). By Ieuan Miles.PROBATION Aspects of Training (Probation Papers No. 2). By F. W. Jarvis and W. B. Utting.CHILDREN Decision in Child Care. By R. A. Parker.CHILDREN Child Care Manual. By A. E. Leeding.CHILDREN Adoption Policy and Practice. By Iris Goodacre.CHILDREN Residential Work with Children. By Richard Balbernie.THE POLICE Justice without Trial: Law Enforcement in Democratic Society. By Jerome H. Skolnick.THE POLICE The Police and the Public in Nigeria. By Cyprian O. Okonkwo.DETECTION AND PREVENTION The Detection of Secret Homicide. By J. D. J. Havard, (Vol. XI in the Cambridge Studies in Criminology).DETECTION AND PREVENTION Crime and Prevention. By Det. Insp. T. S. Carter.

Morbid Jealousy and Murder: A Psychiatric Study of Morbidly Jealous Murderers at Broadmoor

Morbid Jealousy and Murder: A Psychiatric Study of Morbidly Jealous Murderers at Broadmoor

Books Received: Morbid Jealousy and Murder, Doctors and the State

Books Received: Morbid Jealousy and Murder, Doctors and the State

Book Reviews : Murder Followed by Suicide D. J. West Heinemann 35s. Morbid Jealousy and Murder Ronald Ray Mowat Tavistock Publications 30s

Book Reviews : Murder Followed by Suicide D. J. West Heinemann 35s. Morbid Jealousy and Murder Ronald Ray Mowat Tavistock Publications 30s