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Drive, motive, wish, lust, affection, love, and maturity are the elements contained within the dramas of sexual desire. Long-term observation of the fluctuating alignment of these ingredients may transform the clinician into a student of love.
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Levine, S.B. (1992). The Paradoxes of Sexual Desire. In: Sexual Life. Critical Issues in Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0852-0_5
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