Night Thoughts: Reflections of a Sex Therapist - Couverture rigide

Offit, Avodah K.

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ISBN 10 : 0297780433 ISBN 13 : 9780297780434

Editeur : Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1982

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Night Thoughts is the groundbreaking collection of essays that covers the new, the unspoken and the unknown about sexuality. A collection of essays on the viscissitudes of sexuality and love. It deals with the familiar as well as the forbidden. Topics range from masturbation, orgasm and post-coital feelings, to extra-marital patterns, sex and nursing, and incest. Psychiatrist Avodah K. Offit was at the forefront of understanding and describing the psychological basis of human sexuality, and was a heralded mainstay with magazines like Glamour, Vogue, and Self.The book's critical success was represented by The New York Times reviewer who called it "wonderful, strewn with wisdom and insight." The New Republic magazine called Dr. Offit the "Montaigne of human sexuality." Her pioneering work is represented by topics she explores in these essays that cover subjects like morning sex, which she describes as a good way to stimulate the heart. Her observations are invariably related to contact with patients. Can multiple orgasms scare away a lover, one patient asks? Extramarital affairs?--Offit reasons that six out of ten couples she treats are engaged in outside lovemaking. Her candid yet knowledgeable observations treat matters like menstruation and sex, failure to ejaculate, and sex during pregnancy. In all, Offit's essays are like a conversation about the topics that we have all wondered about but had no one to talk to about them.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Dr. Avodah Offit was a pioneer in understanding the psychological basis of human sexuality. She defined the emerging field of sex therapy in scholarly books and popular columns and articles in national magazines including Glamour, Vogue, and Self. In her elegant office in her family's brownstone, Dr. Offit wrote three books. "The Sexual Self" (1977) was a critical success, described as "wonderful, strewn with wit and insight," by the New York Times and The New Republic magazine dubbed Dr. Offit the "Montaigne of human sexuality." She followed with "Night Thoughts, Reflections of a Sex Therapist" in 1981, and a novel "Virtual Love," in 1994. This fictional account of a transcontinental e-mail romance was startling, both for its erotic intensity and the author's prescience in depicting the impact of the internet on how people live, love, and communicate.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0297780433
• ISBN 13: 9780297780434
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 256