Love and Limerence, Dorothy Tennov
Love and Limerence, Dorothy Tennov
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Love and Limerence
The Experience of Being in Love

Author: Dorothy Tennov

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Unabridged: 10 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/13/2020

Synopsis

First released more than forty years ago, Love and Limerence has become a classic in the psychology of emotion. As relevent today as it was then, this book offers insight into love, infatuation, madness, and all flavors of emotion in between.

About Dorothy Tennov

Dorothy Tennov (August 29, 1928-February 3, 2007) was an American psychologist who studied romantic love. Dorothy coined the term "limerence" for her 1979 book, Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love, to describe a concept that had grown out of her work in the mid-1960s, when she interviewed over 500 people on the topic of love.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vivien on December 23, 2007

This book explained my life. More particularly, it explained a phenomenon that has occurred in my life time and again, for better or worse (or more aptly, for best and for worst)... and made me realize that while I often act and feel crazy when in love, I am neither a bad person nor insane. For anyo......more

Goodreads review by James on August 06, 2012

A superb study of the contrast between realistic love based on an in-depth and accurate knowledge of one's partner on the one hand, and limerence, another word for infatuation, on the other - limerence is based on idealization, novelty, and hormones, and serves to get us into situations where love c......more

Goodreads review by Bryan on October 24, 2009

For having been originally published in 1979, as I read this book I kept thinking to myself, "why didn't anyone give me this book earlier?" This is an essential read for anyone who has ever felt that they have abnormally strong feelings for other people, especially when they didn't want to.......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on June 24, 2021

This book explained my 20s......more

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