the existence of eight imitations and five translations of hosn va del into other languages such as english and german shows the importance of this persian book of verse. many researchers have sought the sources of this work and some sources have been mentioned, but the imitation of sibak neishaburi from nezami’s khosrow va shirin, as the most important source of this work, has not yet been m...

Recently a compassionate love scale was developed to assess compassionate love or altruistic love for different targets (e.g., romantic partner, close others and all the humanity; Sprecher & Fehr, 2005). This study was conducted to examine the psychometric properties of the Compassionate Love Scale in the Portuguese context. In addition, it has been examined how compassionate love for a romanti...

Almost everybody can relate to a state of “being or falling in love” even though it is difficult to define love. Love may be a strong, passionate affection for a person. Hence, the Oxford English Dictionary defines love as an intense feeling of deep affection or fondness for a person or a thing, a sexual passion, or sexual relations. Thus, love is an emotion often associated with consensual sex...

First published in: Psychiatry. Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Process, Washington (The William Alanson Psychiatric Foundation), Vol. 2 (1939), pp. 507-523. Reprint in the Yearbook of the International Erich Fromm Society, Vol. 5 (1994): Dealing with the Alien, Münster: LIT-Verlag, 1995, pp. 173-197. Copyright © 1994 and 2001 by The Literary Estate of Erich Fromm, c/o Dr. Rainer Funk, U...

The Hogarth Press and Institute of Psycho-analysis. 8/6 This short book, which was first published in 1937 is now reprinted. It is No. 2 of the Psycho-analytical Epitomes. It is not an abridgement of a larger published work but consists of two lectures with the original Preface by John Rickman. It is good that these concise, non-technical lectures are again pasily available. The authors speak w...

Professor Eibl-Eibesfeldt is a pupil of Konrad Lorenz, the father of ethology, and is director of the section concerned with human ethology at the Max Planck Institute for comparative physiology. This book is a translation from German and it follows an established tradition of Lorenz, Desmond Morris and others who are relating the human to animal behaviour as studied in various species of fishe...