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  • The Incurable Romantic

  • And Other Unsettling Revelations
  • By: Frank Tallis
  • Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
  • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (49 ratings)

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By: Frank Tallis
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Summary

Love is a great leveller. Everyone wants love, everyone falls in love, everyone loses love, and everyone knows something of love's 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 isn't 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.
©2018 Frank Tallis (P)2018 Hachette Audio UK
Science Science & Technology Social Sciences Romance Mental Health
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"Frank Tallis brings a lifetime's 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 McEwan)

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Brilliant read

Very insightful and interesting! Easy to read even for those not interested in psychology. Written in a light tone despite the fact it talks about serious matters.

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