Sorry, I just don't see that stalking is closely related with any type of ET.
I am slightly biased because of the person stalking me, who was psychotic/antisocial-narcissistic. To me, ET in therapy, regardless of type, isn't that related to stalking. It's more related to aggression and control mixed with rejection and i agree, often-delusions. But these people are not in therapy to have an ET relationship.
I don't think these behaviors are played out in ET, regardless of how pathological the ET. Most people who have issues to this degree would never be in therapy to begin with. In other words, very rare. I think stalking and obsessions is more in the realm of forensic psychology but here are Wiki's categories:
We can have both opinions at the same time.
I think what I'm talking about is psychotic transference which i suppose can occur both in/out of therapy but mostly happens outside of therapy with people who don't see therapists unless they are in prison.
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In "A Study of Stalkers" Mullen et al.. (2000)[19] identified five types of stalkers:
Rejected stalkers follow their victims in order to reverse, correct, or avenge a rejection (e.g. divorce, separation, termination).
Resentful stalkers make a vendetta because of a sense of grievance against the victims – motivated mainly by the desire to frighten and distress the victim.
Intimacy seekers seek to establish an intimate, loving relationship with their victim. Such stalkers often believe that the victim is a long-sought-after soul mate, and they were 'meant' to be together.
Incompetent suitors, despite poor social or courting skills, have a fixation, or in some cases, a sense of entitlement to an intimate relationship with those who have attracted their amorous interest. Their victims are most often already in a dating relationship with someone else.
Predatory stalkers spy on the victim in order to prepare and plan an attack – often sexual – on the victim.
Vengeance/terrorist stalker. Both the vengeance stalker and terrorist stalker (the latter sometimes called the political stalker) do not, in contrast with some of the aforementioned types of stalkers, seek a personal relationship with their victims but rather force them to emit a certain response.
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