The incurable romantic and other unsettling revelations / Frank Tallis.
- Tallis, Frank
- Date:
- 2018
- Books
About this work
Description
Love is a great leveller. Everyone falls in love, loses love, and knows something of love's madness. But obsessive love is no trivial matter, and in the course of his career, psychologist Dr Frank Tallis has treated many unusual patients including a widow visited by her dead husband's ghost; an academic besotted with his own reflection and a night porter possessed by a lascivious demon. These are just some of the extraordinary true accounts that take us on a journey through the darker realms of the amorous mind. Drawing on the latest scientific research, The Incurable Romantic demonstrates how love dissolves the divide between normal and abnormal.
Publication/Creation
London : Little, Brown, 2018.
Physical description
xix, 276 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents
The barrister's clerk : love that accepts no denial -- The haunted bedroom : ageless passion -- The woman who wasn't there : suspicion and destructive love -- The man who had everything : addicted to love -- The incurable romantic : on the impossibility of perfect love -- The American evangelist : sins of the flesh -- The stocking game : Dr B and Fraulein O-a cautionary tale -- Narcissus : desire reflected -- The night porter : guilt and self-deception -- The 'good' paedophile : tainted love -- The couple : improbable love -- Brain cuts : love dissected.
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Location Status History of MedicinePQE.PXOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9781408709863
- 1408709864
- 9781408709856
- 1408709856