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"It is customary to view young people's dating relationships and first relationships as puppy love or infatuation"; [6] and if infatuation is both an early stage in a deepening sequence of love/attachment, and at the same time a potential stopping point, it is perhaps no surprise that it is a condition especially prevalent in the first, youthful explorations of the world of relationships.
Erotomania, also known as de Clérambault's syndrome, [1] is a relatively uncommon paranoid condition that is characterized by an individual's delusions of another person being infatuated with them. [2]
Paraphilias are sexual interests in objects, situations, or individuals that are atypical. The American Psychiatric Association, in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fifth Edition (DSM), draws a distinction between paraphilias (which it describes as atypical sexual interests) and paraphilic disorders (which additionally require the experience of distress, impairment in functioning, and/or ...
Schadenfreude (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː d ən f r ɔɪ d ə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. Tooltip literal translation "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another.
Infatuation, not to be confused with love at first sight, is the state of being carried away by an unreasoned passion or assumed love. Hillman and Phillips describe it as a desire to express the libidinal attraction of addictive love, [12] inspired with an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for someone.
Infatuation – Intense but shallow attraction List of emotions – Contrast of one emotion from another Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Social connection – Term in psychology referring to the experience of feeling close and connected to others
The idea of morbid love originated from early Romantic and ancient texts where love-disease imagery was conceptualised in poetry (as opposed to medical papers). [3] However, significant proliferation of this idea, sparked in late nineteenth century France, where there were developments in the Decadence movement, pioneered by the aforementioned Charles Baudelaire, as well as other names such as ...
The word gerontophilia was coined in 1901 by psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing. [3] [4] It derives from Greek: geron, meaning "old person" and philia, meaning "friendship". [5] Gerontophilia is classified as a paraphilia, but is not mentioned in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or International Classification of ...