Love is the core of human experience and central to our meaning in life and wellbeing, yet it
is also a complex concept full of ambiguity and contradiction. The main purpose of this paper�…

Review by Vincent J Felitti, MD hat is love, and why are some people unable to find it? What
is loneliness, and why does it hurt?” are the opening words of this important book. These�…

Romantic love—referred to as love—, is a physiological drive, but society has come to
understand it as an emotion. Nevertheless, many researchers, mainly psychologists, have�…

This groundbreaking study has been widely hailed for its focus on a human emotion
generally considered impervious to rational analysis: romantic, passionate love. Ethel�…

This paper proposes that eight positive emotions: awe, love/attachment, trust/faith,
compassion, gratitude, forgiveness, joy and hope constitute what we mean by spirituality�…

What do we actually talk about when we talk about love? Research on love and emotions
has been met with suspicion although people live in a network of relationships from birth to�…

Intended primarily for mental health professionals, Demystifying Love deals plainly with
topics rarely written about for clinicians. The book discusses in a small package highly�…

The aims of the present study were (a) to develop a Love of Life Model for psychiatric
outpatients,(b) to explore correlations for love of life with psychological well-being�…

The multitude of terms associated with love has given rise to a false perception of love. In
this paper, only maternal and romantic love are considered. Love is usually regarded as a�…

Passionate love is a universal emotion. Researchers have found that people in love have
many advantages: it is known to improve both psychological and physical health. When�…