Morbid Jealousy - Diagnosis

Diagnosis

Mullen (1990) considered morbid jealousy to be associated with four features:

• 1. An under-lying mental disorder emerges before or with the jealousy
• 2. The features of the underlying disorder coexist with the jealousy
• 3. The course of morbid jealousy closely relates to that of the underlying disorder
• 4. The jealousy has no basis in reality

In Morbid jealousy, the overall basis of the psychopathological experience is the preoccupation with a partner’s sexual infidelity. The most common cited forms of psychopathology in morbid jealousy are delusions and obsessions.