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Books like Deviant Love

If you loved Deviant Love by Sigmund Freud, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Emotions, Love & Romance, Sociology, and Family & Relationships.

Emotions Love & Romance Sociology Family & Relationships Psychology Contemporary Social Science Romance Fiction

Top related books to Deviant Love

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Deviant Love.

All about Love: the Deluxe Collector’s Edition New Visions

bell hooks

Themes: Emotions • Love & Romance • Sociology

Woman Power Transform Your Man, Your Marriage, Your Life

Laura Schlessinger

Themes: Emotions • Love & Romance • Sociology

Romantic Jealousy Causes, Symptoms, Cures

Ayala Malakh-Pines

Themes: Emotions • Love & Romance • Sociology

The Science of Love

Glenn Daniel Wilson

Themes: Emotions • Love & Romance • Sociology

Flourishing Love A Secular Guide to Lasting Intimate Relationships

Enrico Gnaulati

Themes: Emotions • Love & Romance • Sociology

Love Factually The Science of Who, How and Why We Love

Laura Mucha

Themes: Emotions • Love & Romance • Sociology

Social Justice Parenting How to Raise Compassionate, Anti-racist, Justice-minded Kids in an Unjust World

Traci Baxley

Themes: Emotions • Love & Romance • Sociology

Future Presence How Virtual Reality Is Changing Human Connection, Intimacy, and the Limits of Ordinary Life

Peter Rubin

Themes: Emotions • Love & Romance • Sociology

The Dark Side of Asian Women What to Expect From an Asian Woman Before It Happens

Daniel Marques

Themes: Emotions • Love & Romance • Sociology

#10

Love and Will

Rollo May

Themes: Emotions • Love & Romance • Sociology

#11

How to Not Die Alone The Surprising Science That Will Help You Find Love

Logan Ury

Themes: Emotions • Love & Romance • Sociology

#12

What a Boy Wants

Nyrae Dawn

Themes: Emotions • Love & Romance • Family & Relationships

#13

Why We Love The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love

Helen Fisher

Themes: Emotions • Love & Romance • Family & Relationships

#14

This Is How Your Marriage Ends A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships

Matthew Fray

Themes: Emotions • Love & Romance • Sociology

#15

The Ethics of Love Emotional Dilemmas for a Relational Life

Susi Ferrarello

Themes: Emotions • Love & Romance • Family & Relationships

#16

Why the F*ck Can’t I Change? Insights from a Neuroscientist to Show That You Can

Gabija Toleikyte

Themes: Emotions • Love & Romance • Family & Relationships

#17

Why Marriages Succeed Or Fail And How You Can Make Yours Last

John Mordechai Gottman

Themes: Emotions • Love & Romance • Sociology

#18

I Just Haven’t Met You Yet Finding Empowerment in Dating, Love, and Life

Tracy Strauss

Themes: Emotions • Love & Romance • Family & Relationships

#19

Diary of a Human Lie Detector Facial Expressions in Love, Lust, and Lies

Annie Sarnblad

Themes: Emotions • Love & Romance • Family & Relationships

#20

Open Hearts Renewing Relationships with Recovery, Romance & Reality

Patrick Carnes

Themes: Love & Romance • Sociology • Family & Relationships

#21

Love, Guilt and Reparation And Other Works 1921-1945

Melanie Klein

Themes: Emotions • Love & Romance • Family & Relationships

#22

Supporting Love How Love Works in Couple Relationships : Bert Hellinger’s Work with Couples

Johannes Neuhauser

Themes: Love & Romance • Sociology • Family & Relationships

#23

30 Lessons for Loving Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage

Karl A. Pillemer

Themes: Love & Romance • Sociology • Family & Relationships

#24

When Food Is Love Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy

Geneen Roth

Themes: Emotions • Love & Romance • Family & Relationships

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Emotions, Love & Romance, Sociology — the same threads that run through Deviant Love by Sigmund Freud. Among the authors featured: bell hooks, Laura Schlessinger, Ayala Malakh-Pines, Glenn Daniel Wilson, and others.