Intense romantic love in a 12th-century Persian medical encyclopaedia

Zakhireh provided early descriptions, particularly in volume 6, on issues that correspond to a number of present-day neuropsychiatric disorders and their manifestations. Jorjani defined intense romantic love as an obsession with components of depression, in which sexual desires play a role in establishment of the disorder. Jorjani’s description of intense romantic love meets a number of symptoms mentioned in modern diagnostic criteria for some psychiatric disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, separation anxiety disorder, adjustment disorder and major depressive disorder.