Dorothy Tennov,
Ph.D.
Independent Scholar
As a critic and observer of science, Dorothy Tennov liked to take on big issues, not necessarily popular issues. The common theme unifying her thinking and writing was a call for improvement of the human condition through science and great dissatisfaction with the human sciences during her lifetime.
She didn't see limerence (a term she invented, which is now part of the lexicon) as particularly "functional" for its victims, but rather one of the many tricks evolution has played on us that cause us to operate independently of our own welfare as defined by our conscious and reasoned goals, our pleasures and reasoned fears. It takes over.
Comment on
the Danny Yee review of Love and Limerence 1999
Q & A (FAQ) on limerence
Phases of the limerence research
"Rhoda Halsey at Home".
A short play about life in a long term medical facility.
Essays:
Will we wake up to the wake-up
call or die to save face?
Feminist Addendum
This is not Dorothy's but she wanted it to be here. It is a brief history of evolutionary science.
Contact Dorothy Tennov's son Ace
last edit 20070515