This book provides provocative evidence for a different way of conceptualizing sexuality and the erotic for women today. It conveys the challenges met with patients-on-the-page, explaining show what might go on in the mind of a psychotherapist while she works with a patient.

Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist and writer. She co-founded the Women's Therapy Centre and Antidote, the organisation promoting emotional literacy and is a visiting Professor at the LSE. She has a practice seeing individuals and couples and consulting to organisations. Her numerous works include 'Fat is a Feminist Issue' (1978), 'Hunger Strike' (1986), 'The Impossibility of Sex' (1999), and 'On Eating' (2002).

A Room with a View -- The Vampire Casanova -- Belle -- Footsteps in the Dark -- Fat is a . . . Issue -- Two Parts Innocent: Two Parts Wise -- The Impossibility of Sex -- And So -- Reflections and Questions -- Thanks