ArticlePhilosophy, psychiatry, & psychology : PPP2017
Addicted to love: What is love addiction and when should it be treated?
Article in Philosophy, psychiatry, & psychology : PPP, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Problematic Love Behaviors and Correlated Factors: A Systematic Review with Subgroup Meta-Analysis Including Gender/Sex Moderation.Archives of sexual behavior · 2026Pooled it
- Conceptualizing love addiction within the attachment perspective: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Pooled it
- Predictors of romantic relationship addiction: attachment styles, mindfulness, and separation anxiety.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Psychopathology of Couple Relationship: A Moderation Analysis on Love Addiction.International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie · 2025Article
- The ethics of anti-love drugs qua precommitment strategy.Theoretical medicine and bioethics · 2025Article
- Addicted to love? Validity evidence for the Love Addiction Inventory - Brazilian version.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2025Article
- A longitudinal network analysis of the relationship between love addiction, insecure attachment patterns, and interpersonal dependence.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Why are we willing to tolerate manipulation? Love addiction and perceived acceptability of gaslighting: the mediating effects of sense of giving and relationship power.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Risk Factors for Love Addiction in a Sample of Young Adult Students: A Multiple Mediation Model Exploring the Role of Adult Attachment, Separation Anxiety, and Defense Mechanisms.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- "I Can't Do without You": Treatment Perspectives for Affective Dependence: A Scoping Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Love Addiction, Adult Attachment Patterns and Self-Esteem: Testing for Mediation Using Path Analysis.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
- Relation of Social Support Status and Social Health in People with Drug Abuse.Advanced biomedical research · 2023Article
- The Evidence for the Pharmaceutical Strengthening of Attachment: What,Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees · 2022Article
- Breaking up with my idol: A qualitative study of the psychological adaptation process of renouncing fanship.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Brave New Love: The Threat of High-Tech "Conversion" Therapy and the Bio-Oppression of Sexual Minorities.AJOB neuroscience · 2014Article
- Could intranasal oxytocin be used to enhance relationships? Research imperatives, clinical policy, and ethical considerations.Current opinion in psychiatry · 2013Review
- If I could just stop loving you: anti-love biotechnology and the ethics of a chemical breakup.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB · 2013Review
- Addiction, Identity, Morality.AJOB empirical bioethicsArticle
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Abstract
Recent research suggests that romantic love can be literally addictive. Although the exact nature of the relationship between love and addiction has been described in inconsistent terms throughout the literature, we offer a framework that distinguishes between a
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