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My personal musings about anything that gets on my radar screen--heavily dominated by politics.

2005-02-14

In Honor Of Valentine's Day

A British researcher has discovered that love has many similarities to madness.

The idea of love as a form of mental illness "is not as absurd as it sounds," author John Preston said, reviewing Mr. Tallis' book for the London Daily Telegraph. "Love ... shares a lot of symptoms with various forms of psychopathology, notably obsession, depression, mania and manic depression."

I think, really, the important question is this: which of the two, love or madness, is the symptom, and which is the pathology?
Posted by: Michael / 2/14/2005 01:19:00 AM

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