Love Sick

Author:   Frank Tallis
Publisher:   Cornerstone
ISBN:  

9781784755669


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   11 April 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Love Sick


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In the best selling tradition of Women Who Love Too Much and Emotional Intelligence Here, leading clinical psychologist, Dr Frank Tallis, explores our age-old preoccupation with love and in particular romantic love. Love is rarely described as a wholly pleasant experience and Tallis considers our experiences and descriptions of love and why the combinations of pleasure and pain, ecstasy and despair, rapture and grief have come to characterise what we mean when we speak about falling in love. Obsessive thoughts, erratic mood swings, insomnia, loss of appetite, recurrent and persistent images and impulses (irresistible urges to phone or text), superstitious or ritualistic compulsions (she loves me, she loves me not), inability to concentrate - so much so that it affects your work, delusion, (are his eyes really deep pools of oceanic azure?). Exhibiting just five or six of these symptoms is enough to merit a diagnosis of Major Depressive Episode, according to the recognized medical criteria. Drawing on the writings of poets, philosophers, songwriters, zoologists and scientists Tallis shows how throughout time - and particularly in the West, the metaphor of illness and specifically mental illness has been used to describe the state of being in love. And asks why it is that we continue to search out this kind of love, with the ecstasy seeming to blind us to the agony.

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Author:   Frank Tallis
Publisher:   Cornerstone
Imprint:   Arrow Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.234kg
ISBN:  

9781784755669


ISBN 10:   1784755664
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   11 April 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Love, far from being benign and sweet, is, in fact, the closest many of us get to experience mental illness Mail on Sunday Funny, fascinating, clever and accomplished. Buy it for someone you're mad for, but it yourself first -- Anna Maxted Lesser mortals will find much to entertain and inform The Observer Enlightening Daily Express


Enlightening * Daily Express * Lesser mortals will find much to entertain and inform * The Observer * Funny, fascinating, clever and accomplished. Buy it for someone you're mad for, but it yourself first -- Anna Maxted Love, far from being benign and sweet, is, in fact, the closest many of us get to experience mental illness * Mail on Sunday *


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Dr Frank Tallis is a published novelist and a practising clinical psychologist. He has written a number of non-fiction books including the definitive textbook on obsessive compulsive disorder, about which he is Britain's leading authority. He lives in London.

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