Book contents
- Stalkers and Their Victims
- Stalkers and Their Victims
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Stalking:
- 2 Stalking as a social construction and social reality
- 3 The epidemiology of stalking
- 4 The victims of stalkers
- 5 Stalking typologies and classifications
- 6 The rejected stalker and the resentful stalker
- 7 The intimacy seeker and the incompetent suitor
- 8 The erotomanias and the morbid infatuations
- 9 The predatory stalker
- 10 Stalking among juveniles
- 11 Female stalkers
- 12 Same-gender stalking
- 13 Cyberstalking
- 14 Stalking by proxy
- 15 The law as the stalker’s agent
- 16 Stalking in the workplace
- 17 Stalking of health professionals
- 18 Stalking celebrities and other public figures
- 19 False victims of stalking
- 20 Evaluating and managing risk in the stalking situation
- 21 The therapeutic approach to the stalker
- 22 Reducing the impact of stalking on victims
- 23 Defining and prosecuting the offence of stalking
- Appendix Victim services
- References
- Index
8 - The erotomanias and the morbid infatuations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 August 2009
- Stalkers and Their Victims
- Stalkers and Their Victims
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Stalking:
- 2 Stalking as a social construction and social reality
- 3 The epidemiology of stalking
- 4 The victims of stalkers
- 5 Stalking typologies and classifications
- 6 The rejected stalker and the resentful stalker
- 7 The intimacy seeker and the incompetent suitor
- 8 The erotomanias and the morbid infatuations
- 9 The predatory stalker
- 10 Stalking among juveniles
- 11 Female stalkers
- 12 Same-gender stalking
- 13 Cyberstalking
- 14 Stalking by proxy
- 15 The law as the stalker’s agent
- 16 Stalking in the workplace
- 17 Stalking of health professionals
- 18 Stalking celebrities and other public figures
- 19 False victims of stalking
- 20 Evaluating and managing risk in the stalking situation
- 21 The therapeutic approach to the stalker
- 22 Reducing the impact of stalking on victims
- 23 Defining and prosecuting the offence of stalking
- Appendix Victim services
- References
- Index
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- Stalkers and their Victims , pp. 92 - 109Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008