Arousal: The Secret Logic of Sexual Fantasies - Softcover

"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