In Love Sick, Dr. Frank Tallis, a leading authority on obsessive disorders, considers our experiences and expressions of love, and why the combinations of pleasure and pain, ecstasy and despair, rapture and grief have come to characterize what we mean when we speak of falling in love. Tallis examines why the agony associated with romantic love continues to be such a popular subject for poets, philosophers, songwriters, and scientists, and questions just how healthy our attitudes are and whether there may in fact be more sane, less tortured ways to love.
A highly informative exploration of how,. Pete Peterson. Love usually appears as a tragic, overwhelming emotion associated with jealousy, suffering, heartache, and death. So many times we come to the Lord with a list of needs, and we miss an opportunity to encounter love. Love takes time. Each psalm was birthed from an intimate moment with Jesus. May these ninety-one Psalms of a lovesick Bride kindle and inspire you to passionately pursue Jesus like never before.
How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Her poems express a deep and powerful intimacy with God. Elle Cooks is obsessed with the idea of falling in love with her Mr. The problem is, everyone on campus knows it. Whatever the reason, most steer clear of this stage-five clinger. But Elle knows that her happily-ever-after is right around the corner. Lovesick Alibi Follow the main character, Ava Rose, as she finds her special place in the world through creativity and a passion for music.
She even gets a second chance at love along the way! But as we have seen, Japanese judges frequently extrapolate love from the facts of the cases while interpreting the Was Wolfe sick?
LILY In what way? NICK Something he could not bear his public knowing about. Some sort of shameful disease. I told her that most people mistake sensationalism for genuine affection. Thus started a debate in which I was jokingly accused of being severe. Ha- rumph! I claimed that losing your head to reason; being selfish in your pursuit of pleasure; engaging in high-risk behavior; and alienating everyone with goopy melodrama does not make a person a romantic; it makes them troubled.
IMHO, such behaviors are self-indulgent and damaging. Yet our culture cons This book was loaned to me by a friend. Yet our culture consistently identifies them as proofs of love. This does not mean that genuine, healthy romance is devoid of sensibility. One can be romantic without needing psychiatric counseling -- if your heart quietly flutters when a special person enters the room because they matter to you, then you are romantic.
You can still pay your bills at the end of the month and show up for work on time. Hmm… I read this book in one sitting, as I was home for the day. It was a fun distraction from sneezing. He takes a historical approach to how romantic love as opposed to filial or familial love has been defined throughout the ages.
The author is mostly balanced in his presentation of the material. Human beings are a jumble of chemicals, and this applies to everything we do.
If anything, I think this book confirms my take on romantic love. Only near the end of the book do I see Tallis taking sides. He defines behaviors that tend to sustain long-term, loving relationships and compares them to behaviors that are more sensational, but fleeting.
Tallis is probably a bit of a romantic. Apr 28, Adam Stevenson rated it really liked it. Love can be painful and can go wrong.
Incurable Romantic consists of a number of case studies where the sexual and romantic areas of life have soured or gone wrong in some way; there is demonic possession, relentless obsession and the odd case of depression. Mixed in with the case studies are personal anecdotes and general explorations into different areas of psychoanalytical history - even some areas that are a little dodgy like Wilhelm Reich and his orgone accumulators.
The book says is contain Love can be painful and can go wrong. It also stresses how important it can for a meaningful life to fall in love. There is also a lot about conflicts inherent in our more animal and rational natures, that we are in our very natures divided beings when it comes to love, sex and romance. One of the most interesting and unsettling elements of the book was how it differed from other psychological books I have read - none of the case studies in the book have clear, happy ends.
The book is not a chance for Tallis to crow about his successes, even the possible happy endings are only beginning, places to begin healing. It was also interesting how the whole realm of the mind, from the biological, chemical, genetic, behavioural.. What we know about human consciousness seems like a mish-mashed and hotch-potched collections of bits of theories and any of them are relevant if they allow a practitioner and patient to crawl towards a solution. I found this book fascinating and well written and would like to return to it at some point and see if I can use its insights in my writing.
Feb 01, Rose B. Frank Tallis help us make some sense of this crazy thing called love from an evolutionary and scientific point of view. The symptoms a person displays when in love, he argues, are remarkably similar to being mentally ill. Melancholy, sleeplessness, preoccupation with the beloved, daydreaming, obsession, jealousy, seeing the other person as perfect are some of the characteristics we all have experienced at some point in our lives.
This necessary madness, however, is the one thing that ensures Dr. This necessary madness, however, is the one thing that ensures the transmission of our genes into subsequent generations.
In other words, if you want for the human race to survive, love is absolutely necessary. If you have ever wondered why it happened to you, what is the meaning of all this nonsense, or simply want to delve into your emotions, this is the book for you. It might make you feel better to know that even rational thinkers like Leo Tolstoy and Sigmund Freud fell prey to the evolutionary demon of jealousy. An interesting book that views love as an emotional endeavour that at times has the lover act irrationally.
The book focuses on romantic love which most modern books on love do suggesting love is different for romantic lovers than for other lovers. This is mostly down to the fact that falling in love is considered a part of love rather than being or staying in love by Tallis. Jul 08, Nikki Rose rated it really liked it. This book slyly talks about the merits of madness in a way that is quite hard to argue with.
I really enjoyed reading about the various aspects of love and madness that are addressed. Nov 05, Mariia Morozova rated it really liked it Shelves: psychology. Sep 11, Stefan rated it really liked it Shelves: on-shelf. A solid take on considering love through a prism of psychological disturbances obsessions, delusions, anxieties, addictions, etc , drawing heavily on literature, mostly English Burton, Byron, Darwin, Hume, Mann, Shakespeare, etc and romantics Stendhal, Goethe , but ventures into Tolstoy or Dostoyevski, Avicenna Ibn Sina , covers Plato, Hippocrates, Lara Croft and even Dalai Lama views on love.
As for a work of it's strangely based on pre research and I assume therapeutical pract A solid take on considering love through a prism of psychological disturbances obsessions, delusions, anxieties, addictions, etc , drawing heavily on literature, mostly English Burton, Byron, Darwin, Hume, Mann, Shakespeare, etc and romantics Stendhal, Goethe , but ventures into Tolstoy or Dostoyevski, Avicenna Ibn Sina , covers Plato, Hippocrates, Lara Croft and even Dalai Lama views on love.
As for a work of it's strangely based on pre research and I assume therapeutical practices. Definitely worth reading, doubly so if you are still in school tackling one of these essays on the nature of love and desire.
A fascinating, accessible and entertaining guide to 'love', looking at its evolutionary roots, history and purpose. Tallis had a very engaging writing style, and the book is packed with engaging insights and fun facts.
I didn't quite buy into the central premise of the book, namely that love may be a mental illness, but this was a fantastic read nonetheless. Sep 24, Christen rated it it was amazing.
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