Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in LoveExcellent. Of universal interest. It deals with the subject in an entirely new way.-Simone de Beauvoir Originally released twenty years ago, Love and Limerence has become a classic in the psychology of emotion. As relevant today as it was then, this book offers insight into love, infatuation, madness, and all flavors of emotion in between. |
Contents
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| 17 | |
The Other Sides of Limerence | 82 |
The Social Effects of Limerence | 119 |
The Opinions of Philosophers Psychologists and Other Experts | 166 |
Limerence Among the Sexes | 207 |
Limerence and Biology | 241 |
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