Theorists such as Farber argue that in adolescence passionate love first appears in all its
intensity. Both adolescence and passion are “intense, overwhelming, passionate,
consuming, exciting, and confusing”. As yet, however, clinicians have been given little
guidance as to how to deal with adolescents caught up in their passionate feelings. Nor has
there been much research into the nature of passionate love. In Section 1 of this paper, we
define passionate love, explain the necessity of developing a scale to measure this concept …