Intense, Passionate Romantic Love: A natural addiction? How the fields that investigate romance and substance abuse can inform each other

Individuals in the early stage of intense romantic love show many symptoms of substance and non-substance or behavioral addictions, including euphoria, craving, tolerance, emotional and physical dependence, withdrawal and relapse. We have proposed that romantic love is a natural (and often positive...

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Main Authors: Helen eFisher, Xiaomeng eXu, Arthur eAron, Lucy L. Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00687/full