What Women Want: A Therapist Her Patients and Their True Stories of Desire Power ...

From an award-winning psychoanalytic psychotherapist, this book explores the experience of female desire — through the lives of seven therapy patients. Maxine Mei-Fung Chung parses out her experience with very distinct women and sheds light on commonalities, finding fundamental needs and desires that transcend their differences. From a young bride-to-be struggling to accept her sexuality, a mother grappling with the meaning and experience of belonging, and others learning to heal from trauma, this book empathetically dives into profound question of what women want and need from relationships, prompting the reader to do the same in their own lives.

The title is a riff on a Freud quote, “The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?” Freud might not have been able to answer it, but Maxine Mei-Fung Chung book is an elegant reply.