PATHOGENY OF THE OTHELLO SYNDROME

Abstract

The paper analyzes the symptoms and signs of the pathological jealousy, its diagnostic and treatment complex of measures, its socially dangerous risk factors, course of the jealousy disease’s phenomenology in schizophrenic patients on the examples of classical outpatient and clinical cases. Special attention is paid to jealous and obsessive-compulsive men, who are inclined to dramatization and theatricalization of affective outbursts of deviant behavior. The complex setbacks of the Othello syndrome in its late stages as well as documentary cases of bringing suffering women to suicide are described. The article’s content explains the variations of the jealous men’s subconscious tries to avoid understanding of the inconsistency of their “evidences” of mythical betrayals. The most typical diseases associated with the Othello syndrome are enumerated in the given article. The connection between the psychiatric anamnesis and the degree of active disease recurrences of jealousy is given. Verbal examples of typical fantasies of jealous people “with a background experience” are fixed, as well as the main paradoxical plots of their evidence base. The paradigmatic cases of jealousy objects to prove their love and devotion are usually initiated in vain, the psychological irrational groundings for the impossibility of the unfaithful spouse “rehabilitating” in the eyes of a person with progressive Othello syndrome are mentioned.

Keywords

• othello syndrome
• psychological pressure
• pathological jealousy
• paranoid disorder
• diagnostic
• disharmony in the relationships
• deviant behavior
• perceptual illusion
• guilt feeling
• irrational bigotry