num_pages: 304
description: WHAT MEN WANT. WHAT MEN FEEL. WHAT WOMEN NEED TO KNOW.When Dr. Brandy Engler opened her sex therapy practice for women in Manhattan she got a big surprise. Most of the calls were from men. They wanted to talk about womanizing porn addiction impotence prostitutesand most of all love.Her patients were everyday guys from all walks of life. Among them were David the Wall Street hotshot and compulsive womanizer; Charles an introvert who kept pushing away the fiance he thought was too beautiful for him; Paul the self-made man who visited massage parlors despite his sexy wife; and the mens group whose stark revelations about male anger and their search for the right woman will open your eyes. In The Men on My Couch  Dr. Engler allows readers inside those private sessions to witness her exciting and evocative encounters with what men desire and fear.Dr. Engler tells her own story too. At first her patients revelations are painful and disconcerting especially against the backdrop of her own difficult love affair. Yet Dr. Engler lets readers experience how she evolves both professionally and personally from chagrin to compassion and reconciles her idealized notions of love and sex with the unexpected and raw truths she hears in the office.The Men on My Couch is unlike books youve read before. There are no tired facile conclusions or pejorative generalizations. Here are fresh insights into modern sexual maladies gleaned from real people having real struggles and experiencing real epiphaniesin the real world.This book will change how both women and men think about love sex and desire.
language: English
title: The Men on My Couch: True Stories of Sex, Love and Psychotherapy
publisher: Berkley