The Men on My Couch: True Stories of Sex, Love, and Psychotherapy

"Highly recommend! (I never write reviews, so you know that I mean it!)" according to Rachele. This book is not what you would expect - the title is provocative, the byline as well. But there are so many levels to this book! I am on my second read-through and maybe it's where I am mentally and emotionally, but I am gaining different insights from my first go with it - about myself, about relationships, about people. Personally, I have a difficult time remaining engaged in solely academic texts. Dr. Engler seamlessly blends her (anonymous) patients' . Ladies, if you want to understand your men. VO Gue Thoroughly enjoyed it. Extremely well written (David Rensin is simply the best). Loved how her personal life was woven throughout all the therapy sequences. Learned a thing or two. Kept my interest throughout.. "It is more psychological than you might think" according to Amazon Customer. A book written by a therapist regarding her life as a sex therapist. It covers why certain personalities develop and what it turns into during life. Definitely a book be read and definitely something I would read again.

Engler lets listeners 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. Most of the calls were from men. Engler allows listeners inside those private sessions to witness her exciting and evocative encounters with what men desire and fear. There are no tired facile conclusions or pejorative generalizations. When Dr. Her patients were everyday guys from all walks of life. In The Men on My Couch, Dr. The Men on My Couch is unlike other relationship books. They wanted to talk about womanizing, porn addiction, impotence, prostitutes - and most of all, love. Yet Dr. Engler tells her own story, too. Brandy Engler opened her sex therapy practice for women in Manhattan, she got a big surprise. At first her patients' revelations are painful and disconcerting, especially against the backdrop of her own difficult love affair. Here are fresh insights into modern sexual maladies, gleaned from real people having real struggles and experiencing real epiphanies - in the real world. Among them were David, the Wall Street hotshot and compulsive womanizer; Charles, an introvert who kept pushing away the fiancée he thought was too beautiful for him; Paul, the self-made man who visited massage parlors despite his sex