Psychopathology of romantic love
• Sexual Health
From a review of Love Sick by Frank Tallis:
But in love irrationality traditionally carries the day. Indeed, so severe and so debilitating are the effects of love that Frank Tallis, a clinical psychologist, believes that it should be classified as a mental illness. This is not as absurd as it sounds. Love - "an amalgam of seemingly incompatible and ungovernable mood swings" - shares a lot of symptoms with various forms of psychopathology, notably obsessionality, depression, mania and manic depression.
John Preston: It's official: love drives you crazy
