Food, Sex and Relationships [Audiobook, Unabridged] [Audio Cassette]

Susie Bright (Author), Harriet G. Lerner (Author), Molly Katzen (Reader)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1997

Food, Sex, and Relationships is an intimate conversation about the three most compelling areas of your experience – with the nation’s most knowledgeable authorities. Join Susie "Sexpert" Bright, Mollie Katzen (Moosewood Cookbook), and Harriet Lerner (The Dance of Intimacy) on a playful and revealing journey into the personal worlds everyone loves to talk about but few dare explore. How are food, sex, and relationships intertwined in everyday life? The surprising answers to this and other provocative questions will radically challenge your views of yourself and the world.

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Insight & wit on America's favorite taboos

About the Author

Well-known psychotherapist Dr. Harriet Learner has helped millions of women with relationship problems. Women around the world have benefited from Lerner's guidance in the bestselling series Dance of Anger, Dance of Intimacy, Dance of Deception. In her monthly column, Good Advice, which appears in New Woman magazine, the author gives practical answers to the big and little questions of life. In Life Preservers: Staying Afloat in Love and Life (1996) the reader who has read too many self-help books and is still not perfect is given a clear plan of action to cut through confusion. Other titles by Lerner include Women in Therapy: Devaluation, Anger, Aggression, Depression, Self-Sacrifice, Mothering, Mother Blaming, Self Betrayal, Sex-Role Stereotypes, Dependency, Work and Success, Inhibitions, and The Mother Dance: How Children Change Your Life. The author has also written a children's book, What's So Terrible About Swallowing an Appleseed , that examines the sister relationship and honesty. In addition, Lerner has created a series of self-help audio cassettes. Harriet Goldhor Lerner, Ph.D is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kans. and frequent workshop leader, lecturer, and consultant. She is married and the mother of two sons.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated (January 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564554791
• ISBN-13: 978-1564554796
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,789,482 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #95 in Books > Books on Cassette > Reference > General

More About the Author

I'm an author, editor, publisher, performer, sex and culture critic, teacher, seamstress, and pumpkinhead.

I live in Santa Cruz, CA.

My blog is: http://susiebright..com.

My weekly show on Audible:
"In Bed With Susie Bright": http://www.audible.com/susiebright

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deserves much wider attention!, September 16, 2003

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This review is from: Food, Sex and Relationships (Audio Cassette)

I picked up this tapeset from a place where selection was limited -- I admit I would have passed right by in a larger environment. And I loved it!
These women are sharp, intelligent and funny. They're superstars in the self-help world but they're down-to-earth and realistic. And they offer insights that would benefit just about everyone.

Now my focus in life is on careers and business -- not sex, food or relationships. But I found myself learning a lot and enjoying what I heard.

Example:: Fifty percent of first marriages end in divorce. (This statistic, which they cite, may not be accurate but we certainly know that many marriages do end in divorce.) So the question we should ask is not, "What's wrong with the divorced partners," but, "How does the institution fail in today's world?"
Example: Food is supposed to be enjoyable -- not a series of prohibitions. We shouldn't talk about "good" and "bad" food -- but we are advised to eat from hunger and to question nervous or emotional eating.
Example: Sex education focuses on the negatives -- disease and unwanted pregnancy. Why aren't we taught a more positive view of the joyous aspects of sex?

I wish the authors would write a book that pulls their insights together. I was surprised when, in answer to a question, they revealed they did not have a synthesis of the relation of these three aspects of life.

The second tape covers an interview with the three authors, encouraging them to delve into their own experiences and their own memories of growing up. Suzy Bright offers a hilarious tale of how she converted from Catholic schoolgirl to sex expert. And while I usually zone out on childhood memory stories, I found myself fascinated by the way each woman grew and changed and dealt with her own family.

A great companion for a long trip. I listened twice and plan to return.