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Psychopathology of romantic love

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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

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