Product Description: This collection presents a classic essay by Sigmund Freud, followed by discussions that set Freud's work in context and demonstrate its contemporary relevance. The contributors to this volume represent diverse perspectives from different regions of the psychoanalytic world.

A leading psychoanalyst examines romantic passion, how it affects our psychological growth, and the differences in the way men and women experience romance

A Columbia University professor of clinical psychiatry shares her years of experience on the subject of personal power, explaining how each individual can rediscover, understand, and fortify their own inner strength. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

A Columbia University professor of clinical psychiatry shares her years of experience on the subject of personal power, explaining how each individual can rediscover, understand, and fortify their own inner strength.

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Product Description: Over the course of the past century, sexual liberation has transformed the way in which most of us regard our bodies and live our sexual lives. Now a preeminent psychoanalytic theoretician on sex and gender discusses what has gone into this unquiet revolution -- the roles played by sexologists and psychoanalysts, antibiotics and birth control, the liberation movements, and Freud's insight that sex has as much to do with the mind as with the genitals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Challenging Freudian opinions that state that happy, well-balanced people do not fantasize, a revealing look at the benefits of positive fantasy lives explains why they are crucial to emotional health

Essays consider erotic desire, reproduction, sexual politics, menstruation, pregnancy, motherhood, homosexuality, and menopause

Essays consider erotic desire, reproduction, sexual politics, menstruation, pregnancy, motherhood, homosexuality, and menopause