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 relationships, sex and the ever present question: what is love?
The Men on My Couch is a diary of lessons learned by a young psychologist on
her unexpected journey into the erotic minds of men. Readers are allowed into
the therapy room for a fly- on-the-wall perspective of the provocative
interactions that uncover the real motivations for the modern man's sexual behavior.
Challenged to help these everyday men with issues that include womanizing,
pornography, prostitutes and sex addiction, Dr. Engler explored their desires
and fears in search of understanding. This engaging memoir reveals her private
reactions to the men's revelations and their impact on her own difficult love
affair. Although her work was initially disconcerting, as Dr. Engler helped her
patients, they in turn helped her to evolve professionally and personally, and
to reconcile her idealized notions of love with the raw truths she heard in the office.
The Men on My Couch is not a book of maxims about men. Dr. Engler and David Rensin
move beyond facile conclusions and pejorative generalizations to arrive at a unique psychology
of sex that will inevitably cause readers to reconsider their ideas about sex, love and men.
Manhattan, she got a big surprise. Most of the calls were from men. They wanted
to talk about relationships, sex and the ever present question: what is love?
The Men on My Couch is a diary of lessons learned by a young psychologist on
her unexpected journey into the erotic minds of men. Readers are allowed into
the therapy room for a fly- on-the-wall perspective of the provocative
interactions that uncover the real motivations for the modern man's sexual behavior.
Challenged to help these everyday men with issues that include womanizing,
pornography, prostitutes and sex addiction, Dr. Engler explored their desires
and fears in search of understanding. This engaging memoir reveals her private
reactions to the men's revelations and their impact on her own difficult love
affair. Although her work was initially disconcerting, as Dr. Engler helped her
patients, they in turn helped her to evolve professionally and personally, and
to reconcile her idealized notions of love with the raw truths she heard in the office.
The Men on My Couch is not a book of maxims about men. Dr. Engler and David Rensin
move beyond facile conclusions and pejorative generalizations to arrive at a unique psychology
of sex that will inevitably cause readers to reconsider their ideas about sex, love and men.
