As a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Jane Knowles finds that about 80 percent of her clients' problems stem from their need for, search for, and disappointment in love.
Love: A User's Guide
is a popular and comprehensive psychology book exploring the many forms this vexed emotion can take: parental, sexual, sibling, spiritual friendship and so on, from a woman"s point of view.
The author takes us on an illuminating journey through our emotional lives from the moment a new-born baby feels its first rush of love-and hate-for the mother to the turbulent passions of adolescence and the flourishing sexuality of full adulthood right through the calmer, mellower but equally rewarding friendships of old age.
Accessible, well-written, and entertaining, Knowles draws extensively on case histories and from her professional experience.