I stumbled across the word Limerence about a year ago and was fascinated. On Limerence Dorothy Tennov, an American psychologist,…
I stumbled across the word Limerence about a year ago and was fascinated. On Limerence Dorothy Tennov, an American psychologist, introduced the term limerence with her publication in 1979 called ‘love and limerence’. According to Tennov limerence can often be what is meant when one expresses having intense feelings of attachment, preoccupations with the love object, and (as new research on brain chemistry shows) a similar mind-state to obsessive compulsive disorder. Limerence has certain basic components according to Tennov: Intrusive…