What Do Women Want? - Softcover

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Susie Orbach and Luise Eichenbaum are pioneers in the development and practice of feminist psychotherapy. In 1976 they founded the Women’s Therapy Centre in London which now provides counselling services for over five hundred women each year. Susie Orbach is the author of Fat is a Feminist Issue I and Fat is a Feminist Issue II, which revolutionized the treatment of compulsive eating in women. Luise Eichenbaum is the author of Outside In… Inside Out, Women’s Psychology: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Approach, and Bittersweet: Facing up to Feelings of Love, Envy and Competition in Women’s Friendships, also written with Susie Orbach.

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The modern relationship is in crisis. Why? In this pioneering work, Susie Orbach and Luise Eichenbaum pinpoint the deceptively simple question that lies at the root of all its problems and ask – what 'do' women want? Torn between all the demands of today's society, many women feel that they pour love, commitment and understanding into their relationships, but that it is not returned in kind. He seems secure and independent, she feels insecure and needy. The truth is that both men and women are dependent . . .

In crystal-clear prose, Susie Orbach and Lusie Eichenbaum explore the relationships of men and women, explaining how men have learned to 'manage' their dependency needs very differently to women, and why women feel so dependent and hungry for love. They show conclusively why dependency on both sides is the essential core of any successful relationship and how it offers a new blueprint for the future. First published in 1983, this feminist classic has been thoroughly revised for today's audience. Its message is as relevant today as ever.

"This book highlights the fact that women are brought up to understand men's emotional needs but men are not brought up to understand women's"
WOMAN