Obsessed with Love

Do you know what Capgras delusion or de Clérambault's syndrome is? Is someone close to you suffering from a delusional disorder of the jealous type? Or perhaps mere perfectionism? These are various, more or less obscure, facets of the phenomenon known as being in love.
In his practice, British psychologist and psychotherapist Frank Tallis enjoys delving into the darker sides of the human psyche. In this book, inspired by the work of the Roman philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus, *On the Nature of Things*, which compares falling in love to madness, he has collected the stories of his patients. These are individuals he encountered during therapy who, in one way or another, suffered from symptoms of extreme infatuation, or “abnormal love”, where the afflicted person is plagued by delusions, unable to objectively assess their situation, and lives in what seems like a perpetual hallucination.
These twelve stories, blending non-fiction and fiction, explore the many fascinating forms of love—its eternity, its destructiveness, and its uncontrollability.