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yliasalt's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
sallysimo's review against another edition
5.0
The author claims that obsession stems from neglect during childhood. Luckily, she qualifies that by saying that this does not mean that parents have been bad parents per se but the obsession rather originates in the feeling of abandonment and rejection the child feels in certain situations.
That was the only "icky" point for me but since the author qualified it I can look past that. Overall, a really good book for everyone struggling with this issue and also for family and friends of both obsessers and targets.
That was the only "icky" point for me but since the author qualified it I can look past that. Overall, a really good book for everyone struggling with this issue and also for family and friends of both obsessers and targets.
jocelynw's review against another edition
4.0
I read this in the 1990s in the midst of a terrible relationship well-characterized by the "co-obsessors" section, recently ran across my mention of having read it then, wondered how I'd find it re-reading it twenty-five years distant from that disaster. Still think that depiction was highly accurate.
komet2020's review against another edition
4.0
This is a very insightful and fascinating book. It is replete with case histories of men and women the author has treated over time in her practice for having obsessive passions for people in their lives. Whether these were romantic relationships or a matter of an unrequited love, "OBSESSIVE LOVE" serves as a guide to help people either caught up in unhealthy relationships or unable to break away from harboring debilitating attachments to someone uninterested in them. In the process, the reader learns "how to recognize the 'connection compulsion,' what causes it, and how to break its hold on your life so that you can go on to build healthy, lasting, and pain-free relationships."
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