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Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 115116 ( C[circlecopyrt] 2006)DOI: 10.1007/s10508-005-9002-6Letter to the EditorAdult Baby SyndromePublished online: 20 April 2006Adult Baby Syndrome is a recently described symptom cluster, which has not yet become part of any official
psychiatric classification system. There have been only a
few case reports in the literature, which presented either as
a paraphilia or an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
(Croarkin, Nam, & Waldrep, 2004; Dinello, 1967; Malitz,
1966; Pate & Gabbard, 2003; Tuchman & Lachman,
1964). These patients shared the common symptoms of
wearing diapers, drinking milk out of a bottle, eating baby
food, and wanting to become a baby.Mr. A was a 57-year-old, Hispanic male, married
with three children, who presented for psychiatric emergency evaluation complaining of hearing the voice of a
female which called out his name and commanding him to
kill himself. He was also seeing ghosts, which he further
described as a female dressed in white. He stated that
he was miserable and lonely and had suicidal ideation
with no specific plan. While Mr. A stated that he had
been hearing voices, especially at night of a female and
ghosts for more than 40 years, he never experienced
command auditory hallucinations up until a few months
ago. It was around the same time that his wife started
working longer hours and Mr. A remained at home alone,
which he viewed as a significant stressor. This overlapped
with his wifes...