Frank Tallis brings a lifetimes clinical experience and wise reflection to a condition that, by its own strange routes, leads us into the very heart of love itself. This is a brilliant, compelling book Ian McEwanLove is a great leveller. Everyone wants love, everyone falls in love, everyone loses love, and everyone knows something of loves madness. But the experience of obsessive love is no trivial matter. In the course of his career psychologist Dr Frank Tallis has treated many unusual patients, whose stories have lessons for all of us.A barristers clerk becomes convinced that her dentist has fallen in love with her and they are destined to be together for eternity a widow is visited by the ghost of her dead husband an academic is besotted with his own reflection a beautiful woman searches jealously for a rival who isnt there and a night porter is possessed by a lascivious demon. These are just some of the people whom we meet in an extraordinary and original book that explores the conditions of longing and desire true accounts of psychotherapy that take the reader on a journey through the darker realms of the amorous mind.Drawing on the latest scientific research into the biological and psychological mechanisms underlying romance and emotional attachment, The Incurable Romantic demonstrates that ultimately love dissolves the divide between what we judge to be normal and abnormal.

Binding: Paperback;304 pages; Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group; Classification: BT; Weight: 364 g; Dimensions: 194 x 140 x 20

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