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Falling in Love and Infatuation

George L. Christie

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A distinction is drawn between normal and pathological developments of the falling-in-love process, and the term infatuation is suggested as a suitable inclusive label for the pathological states that can develop. The phenomenology of falling in love and infatuation is outlined in detail and then summarized in a chart. The incidence of infatuation is discussed, and finally a suggestion is made as to its essential dynamic basis.

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A distinction is drawn between normal and pathological developments of the falling-in-love process, and the term infatuation is suggested as a suitable inclusive label for the pathological states that can develop. The phenomenology of falling in love and infatuation is outlined in detail and then summarized in a chart. The incidence of infatuation is discussed, and finally a suggestion is made as to its essential dynamic basis.

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A distinction is drawn between normal and pathological developments of the falling-in-love process, and the term infatuation is suggested as a suitable inclusive label for the pathological states that can develop. The phenomenology of falling in love and infatuation is outlined in detail and then summarized in a chart. The incidence of infatuation is discussed, and finally a suggestion is made as to its essential dynamic basis.

Key concepts: Infatuation, Falling in love, Falling (accident), Pathological, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Medicine, Psychiatry

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