On romantic love: simple truths about a complex emotion

1. Dangerous liaisons : a letter from a friend

2. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love : the chemistry of love

Your brain on crack

Beliefs and brain chemistry

Taking the drug away

Addicted to grief

Emotional pain

Stress, pimples, and gray hair

Love and hate

3. I have feelings too : the philosophy of love

Love as an emotion

Basic and complex emotions

Is love a bodily sensation?

Uniting body and world

Strange connections

Emotional responses to fiction

Perceived responses

4. Hopelessly devoted to you : irrational love

does the idea of irrational love make sense?

You call it madness, I call it love

Irrational compassionate love

The transcendent view of love

Love as a history

Personal identity and the value of our beloveds

Is love unconditional?

5. Why was I holding onto something that would never be mine? : relationships and love attachment

Secure versus insecure attachment

Childish relationships

Avoidant attachment

Anxious attachment

Familiar love

Jealousy and anxious attachment

Avoidance and love as a history

Can attachment styles change?

Attachment love

Can animals love?

6. Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye : unconscious love

Opponents of unconscious affection

Unconscious affect

Two emotional pathways

Unconscious love

In your dreams

Is love a disposition?

7. He's just not that into you : and other in-between cases of love

Prototypes

"Love" is gradable

He's just not that into you

Love and ambivalence

8. I'd do anything for love (but I won't do that) : love and sex

Non-monogamous love as in-between cases

Love and casual sex

The other dimension of sex

9. Un-break my heart : how to fall out of love

Never mind searching for who you are : search for the person you aspire to be

Psychoanalysis and talk therapy

Emotional regulation and avoidance behavior

The repetition technique

Prolonged exposure therapy

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

Deep relaxation and meditation

Heartbreak and placement conditioning

The Sinclair Method

Out, damned spot : using soap to wash away your negative feelings

10. Happiness is love, full stop : love, marriage, and the pursuit of happiness

Emotional regulation as a route to happiness

Negative thinking as a path to happiness?

Marriage and happiness

Love and happiness

Sometimes the heart wants what it wants : the end.