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This book is not only for professionals but also for anyone curious about the roots of sexuality. --Nancy Friday, author of My Secret Garden .. .an original and provocative theory that is the most definitive explanation I have ever read of...sexual arousal. --Lillian P. Rubin, Ph.D., author of Tangled Lives: Daughters, Mothers, and the Crucible of Aging and Intimate Strangers) In his ability to analyze the interaction of psychology and culture, Michael Bader is without peer in intellectual life today. --Michael Lerner, Editor of Tikkun magazine Everyone can now see that theory can be sexy. Arousal goes where Viagra fears to tread. --Phillip Kaufman, director of Quills and The Unbearable Lightness of Being .. .a fascinating explanation of the bewildering diversity, and often bizarreness, of our sexual fantasies. --Robert Wallerstein, M.D. Former Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, Past President International Psychoanalytic Association, and Past President, American Psychoanalytic Association I have never read a book that so powerfully explains sexual dysfunction as does Michael Bader's brilliant new work, Arousal. --Dennis J. Zeitlin, M.D Bader's story theory of sexual arousal is revolutionary. It has the potential to change forever the way we understand everything about sex. I believe that he has no equal among psychoanalysts in his understanding and elucidation of sexual passion. --Kim Chernin, author of In My Mother's House Bader is a clear, graceful writer, and he makes his points with rare facility in a way useful to both lay people and therapeutic professionals. --Library Journal An insider's look at what goes on behind the scenes of our desires. --Kirkus Reviews

Arousal represents an important advance in psychoanalytic thinking about sexual fantasies. --Nancy Friday, author of My Secret Garden <br><br> Bader's story theory of sexual arousal is revolutionary. It has the potential to change forever the way we understand everything about sex. I believe that he has no equal among psychoanalysts in his understanding and elucidation of sexual passion. --Kim Chernin, author of In My Mother's House <br><br> In this brilliant new work, Dr. Michael Bader offers an original and provocative theory that is the most definitive explanation I have ever read of both the psychological and social dynamics of sexual arousal. This highly readable and engaging book should be required reading not only for practicing psychotherapists but for all those who are interested in the how and why of sexual arousal. --Lillian B. Rubin, Ph.D., author of Intimate Strangers <br><br> Bader is a clear, graceful writer, and he makes his points with rare facility in a way useful to both lay people and therapeutic professionals. -- Library Journal <br><br> An insider's look at what goes on behind the scenes of our desires. -- Kirkus Reviews <br><br> Bader comes across as a compassionate psychotherapist, dedicated to exploring desire in whatever shape it might take. -- Library Journal <br>

Arousal represents an important advance in psychoanalytic thinking about sexual fantasies. --Nancy Friday, author of My Secret Garden <br> Bader's story theory of sexual arousal is revolutionary. It has the potential to change forever the way we understand everything about sex. I believe that he has no equal among psychoanalysts in his understanding and elucidation of sexual passion. --Kim Chernin, author of In My Mother's House <br> In this brilliant new work, Dr. Michael Bader offers an original and provocative theory that is the most definitive explanation I have ever read of both the psychological and social dynamics of sexual arousal. This highly readable and engaging book should be required reading not only for practicing psychotherapists but for all those who are interested in the how and why of sexual arousal. --Lillian B. Rubin, Ph.D., author of Intimate Strangers <br> Bader is a clear, graceful writer, and he makes his points with rare facility in a way useful to both lay people and therapeutic professionals. -- Library Journal <br> An insider's look at what goes on behind the scenes of our desires. -- Kirkus Reviews <br> Bader comes across as a compassionate psychotherapist, dedicated to exploring desire in whatever shape it might take. -- Library Journal <br>

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Dr. Michael J. Bader has more than two decades of experience as a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, educator, and social critic. He is a frequent contributor to mainstream psychoanalytic criticism, and his series of highly acclaimed articles for Tikkun magazine has been instrumental in bridging the gap between psychology and popular culture. He lives in San Francisco.

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