SWREN414R Chapter Notes - Chapter 7.2: Holding Hands, Mental Disorder, Niklas Luhmann

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Social Work (Bachelor of Social Work)
• Course: SWREN414R
• Professor: Jennifer Yuen

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Definitional issues: what is morbid jealousy, some comments on the basic issue of when jealousy is to be considered morbid, or problematic, need to be made at this stage. Jealousy, which is a normal human reaction, assumes morbid or maladaptive dimensions when it causes distress in the jealous person and/or the target person, and disrupts the functioning of one or both of them and the relationship). It is advisable to use the term morbid jealousy in this wider sense, denoting in a descriptive manner its essentially maladaptive or dysfunctional nature. Indeed, there are many clinical cases where the problem of jealousy is of such severity that it necessitates intervention but where beliefs about sexual infidelity are totally absent (e. g. de silva & marks, 1994; marks & de silva, 1991). Jealousy asso(cid:272)iated (cid:449)ith delusio(cid:374)s of i(cid:374)fidelity has (cid:271)ee(cid:374) gi(cid:448)e(cid:374) the la(cid:271)el (cid:858)delusional. Disorder jealous type(cid:859) i(cid:374) the diag(cid:374)osti(cid:272) a(cid:374)d tatisti(cid:272)al ma(cid:374)ual of the a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a(cid:374)