Lovesickness
(La enfermedad del amor)

This book is a study of the medical opinions on obsessive erotic love throughout history: symptoms and diagnosis in classic antiquity; sex, melancholy and the wolf man in the Middle Ages; courtly love; black bile; love remedies and love as sickness. A fascinating study on how love has been considered throughout the history of medicine, using a historiographical analysis that offers a fresh, original perspective on a subject that is always of interest.