Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Experience and Expression of Love by Victor Karandashev

Author:Victor Karandashev
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9783030150204
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

6.2 Maladaptive and Pathological Symptoms of Love

Maladaptive Symptoms of Love

Love can be desperate , devastating, and destructive (Sperling & Berman, 1991; Spitzberg & Cupach, 1998). Simenon distinguished sexual passion from romantic love calling passion as an obsessive and possessive malady, full of jealousy, with no lightness and no harmony (Garis, 1984).

In Sternberg’s (1997) typology, the fatuous/infatuated love describes such maladaptive experience of love. Tennov (1979/1998) introduced the term limerance to depict the unstable and intense feeling of love. Sperling and Berman (1991) conceptualized this as desperate love , while Hindy and Schwarz (1994) conceptualize it as anxious romantic attachment. The French word amour fou (literally mad love, or more positively boundless love) stands for this type of love.

The feeling of insecure attachment also characterizes emotional aspect of maladaptive symptoms of love. Hendrick and Hendrick (1989), in their factor analysis of five love scales (described in earlier sections), identified ambivalence and insecurity of attachment—what is common for obsessive and possessive experience in love—as the salient features of love among American college students .

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