A Psychoanalytic Guide To Relationships.

Why we desire the people we do, why men and women so often misunderstand each other, and what our relationships reveal about who we are.

The book starts with our first relationships, with the mother and the father, and follows how desire, fantasy, gender and sexuality shape who we become and who we choose to love. It offers a way of understanding what drives your decisions in love, where most relationship books offer rules. The hope is that once you can see those mechanisms clearly, you can choose more freely and with less anxiety about getting it wrong.

Chapter List:

1. The Mother 2. Desire & Drive 3. Fantasy: The Bridge Between Desire & Drive 4. Beyond Fantasy 5. The Father 6. Subjectivity 7. Seduction 8. Soul 9. Brief Commentaries (a series of individual essays)