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Beschreibung

What happens when longing takes hold and won't let go? When the need for connection becomes obsession, and fantasy begins to blur with reality?

This book explores limerence, a complex and often misunderstood psychological state marked by intrusive thoughts, emotional dependency, and an intense longing for reciprocation. What begins as attraction can quickly spiral into fixation, projection, and the gradual unravelling of the self.

The author weaves together insights from psychology, neuroscience, mythology, and cultural analysis to examine limerence through clinical, emotional, symbolic, digital, spiritual, and relational lenses. Drawing on case studies, archetypal patterns, and original diagnostic frameworks, it reveals limerence as both a source of profound suffering and a window into deeper psychological truths.

For therapists, clinicians, and curious readers alike, this is a nuanced exploration of obsessive love and the psychological complexities that shape it.

What happens when longing takes hold and won't let go? When the need for connection becomes obsession, and fantasy begins to blur with reality?

This book explores limerence, a complex and often misunderstood psychological state marked by intrusive thoughts, emotional dependency, and an intense longing for reciprocation. What begins as attraction can quickly spiral into fixation, projection, and the gradual unravelling of the self.

The author weaves together insights from psychology, neuroscience, mythology, and cultural analysis to examine limerence through clinical, emotional, symbolic, digital, spiritual, and relational lenses. Drawing on case studies, archetypal patterns, and original diagnostic frameworks, it reveals limerence as both a source of profound suffering and a window into deeper psychological truths.

For therapists, clinicians, and curious readers alike, this is a nuanced exploration of obsessive love and the psychological complexities that shape it.

Über den Autor

Orly Miller is a psychologist, author, and writer working at the intersection of depth psychology, psychoanalysis, and cultural thought. She writes and practices from Australia, working with individuals and couples worldwide.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Limerence in Context: A Passionate Madness

1. The First Taste of Love: Forming Attachment

2. The Beginning of Suffering: Maladaptive Developmental Attachment

3. How Do I Love Thee?: Archetypes of Limerence

4. You Make Me Feel So High: The Neurochemistry of Limerence

5. I Love You So Much It Hurts: Longing and Compulsion

6. I Can't Stop Thinking About You: Obsessive Thoughts

7. The Things I'd Like to Do with You: Daydreaming and Fantasy

8. Tell Me You Love Me: Mutual, Unexpressed and Unrequited Limerence

9. I'm Not Supposed to Love You: Cultural and Ethical Condemnation

10. Take This Longing from my Tongue: Limerence in Art, Literature, Music and Film

11. It Feels so Real: Limerence in the Digital Age

12. I'm Crazy for You: Limerence and Psychopathology

13. Please Make it Stop: Treatment and Recovery

14. How Can I Help?: Supporting People with Limerence

15. Conclusion Where Do We Go from Here?

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Ratgeber
Thema: Lebensführung allgemein
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781032915319
ISBN-10: 1032915315
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Miller, Orly
Hersteller: Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 9 mm
Von/Mit: Orly Miller
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.12.2025
Gewicht: 0,269 kg
Artikel-ID: 134340722

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