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Article: Love, thy magic spell is everywhere - but why?
- Article from:
- Nutrition Health Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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Chemistry or Psychological Triumph?
"Love is like French food. It is one of life's luxuries. It is at once the most exhilarating feeling people can experience . . . and the origin of the most painful feelings. That makes it a powerful force."
Few would question this statement. Most of us have fallen in love at some point in our lives, felt that upsurge of feeling like we were walking on air. Most of us have also felt the agony of loves lost, the crushing pain of breaking up when love has gone sour.
What interests Dr. Michael R. Liebowitz, speaker of the above words and a psychiatrist at the New York Psychiatric Institute, is how love works in the brain ...