Tobie Nathan is the author of such highly successful works as La Nouvelle Interprétation des rêves, L’Influence qui guérit and Psychanalyse païenne, all published by Editions Odile Jacob. An anthropologist and psychoanalyst, he is a leading figure in ethno-psychiatry. He was formerly a professor of clinical and pathological psychology at Paris-VIII University and the director of the Georges Devereux Centre.

Many of the emotions we experience we regard as ‘natural’. It seems ‘normal’ to feel sad when we are given bad news and happy when we hear good news. But there’s one emotion that always seems foreign to us: passionate love. Love is a madness that we simultaneously seek and fear, that we experience as a metamorphosis of ourselves.
Can you make someone fall in love with you? Tobie Nathan takes this question very seriously. His reply covers five different aspects: passion, scents, recipes, modern life, love madness.
Covering history, the occult, mythology, antiquity, as well as examples from contemporary life, Nathan offers us here an unforgettable journey into the very heart of love passionate love.

• A common fantasy: making someone fall head-over-heels in love with you!
• A deep but also accessible book, written in the same vein as Nathan’s previous success La Nouvelle Interprétation des rêves.
• Methods and suggestions to help you elicit passionate love — or to protect yourself from it.