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Stalker's misdirected love cured with brain surgery Psychotic behavior ended after vascular lesion was repaired, physicians say

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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 19970918
Author:NEIL D. ROSENBERG

Robert Browning once wrote "Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also."

That was certainly the case for a 22-year-old British chap whose unrequited love landed him in prison.

But as it turned out, his romantic problems were an affair not of the heart but of his brain. The man's stalking of his 28-year-old female neighbor, whom he was convinced loved him as much as he loved her, was a consequence of a physical brain abnormality. When the problem was repaired, his psychotic love attachment ended. "This case is, apparently, the first report of erotomania and stalking behavior secondary to an ...

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