Esther Perel has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 986 ratings. The most-rated is Mating in Captivity.
Mating in Captivity
Summary
Esther Perel takes on tough questions, grappling with the obstacles and anxieties that arise when our quest for secure love conflicts with our pursuit of passion. She invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and explains what it takes to bring lust home. In her 20 years of clinical experience, Perel has treated hundreds of couples whose home lives are empty of passion. They describe relationships that are open and loving, yet sexually dull. What is going on? In this explosively original book, Perel explains that our cultural penchant for equality, togetherness, and absolute candor is antithetical to erotic desire for both men and women. Sexual excitement doesn't always play by the rules of good citizenship. It is politically incorrect. It thrives on power plays, unfair advantages, and the space between self and other. More exciting, playful, even poetic sex is possible, but first we must kick egalitarian ideals and emotional housekeeping out of our bedrooms. While Mating in Captivity shows why the domestic realm can feel like a cage, Perel's take on bedroom dynamics promises to liberate, enchant, and provoke. Flinging the doors open on erotic life and domesticity, she invites us to put the "X" back in sex.
©2006 Esther Perel (P)2006 HarperCollins Publishers
The State of Affairs
Summary
Iconic couples' therapist and best-selling author of Mating in Captivity Esther Perel returns with a groundbreaking and provocative look at infidelity, arguing for a more nuanced and less judgmental conversation about our transgressions. An affair: It can rob a couple of their relationship, their happiness, their very identity. And yet this extremely common human experience is so poorly understood. Adultery has existed since marriage was invented, and so, too, the prohibition against it - in fact it has a tenacity that marriage can only envy. So what are we to make of this time-honored taboo, universally forbidden yet universally practiced? For the past 10 years, master therapist Esther Perel has traveled the globe and worked with hundreds of couples who have been shattered by infidelity. In The State of Affairs she asks, why do we cheat? And why do happy people cheat? Why does infidelity hurt so much? And when we say infidelity, what exactly do we mean? Is an affair always the end of a marriage? Affairs, she writes, have a lot to teach us about relationships. They provide unusual insight into our personal and cultural attitudes about love, lust, and commitment. Betrayal hurts, but it can be healed. An affair can even be the doorway to a new marriage - with the same person. With the right approach, Perel argues, couples can grow and learn from these tumultuous experiences, together or apart. Fiercely intelligent, The State of Affairs provides a daring framework for understanding the intricacies of love and desire. As Perel writes, "Love is messy; infidelity more so. But it is also a window, like no other, into the crevices of the human heart." After listening to Esther read The State of Affairs, continue on as she opens the door to her office and invites you to listen in on actual couple sessions. These are unscripted conversations of real, anonymous couples grappling with infidelity from her Audible Original podcast Where Should We Begin Begin? (courtesy of Audible Originals, LLC). As you enter this raw, intimate space with Esther, we hope you find the vocabulary for the conversations you may wish to have.
©2017 Esther Perel (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers
Was Liebe braucht - Das Geheimnis des Begehrens in festen Beziehungen
Summary
Können wir begehren, was wir schon haben? Insgeheim kennen viele Paare das Problem: Die Liebe nimmt zu, doch das Begehren schwindet; man teilt den Alltag, doch die heißen Nächte werden weniger. Wieso ist es eigentlich so schwer, Liebe und Leidenschaft unter einen Hut zu bringen? Die bekannte Beziehungsexpertin und Therapeutin Esther Perel hat mit zahlreichen Paaren gearbeitet und ihre Frustrationen, geheimen Wünsche und Sehnsüchte erforscht. Mit Was Liebe braucht traf sie damit bei Millionen Menschen einen Nerv. Denn ihr Buch hilft uns, unsere widersprüchlichen Bedürfnisse nach Sicherheit und Abenteuer besser zu verstehen und zu vereinen. Sexuelles Verlangen entsteht nämlich gerade nicht durch Nähe und Gewöhnung, sondern durch ein gewisses Maß an Unsicherheit und Distanz. Spannend und unterhaltsam beschreibt Esther Perel anhand zahlreicher Fallbeispiele, wie es uns gelingt, auch in unserer Sicherheitszone "Beziehung", unserem Wunsch nach Risiko und Abenteuer wieder Raum und der Erotik eine Chance zu geben. - Ein Buch, das Lust auf mehr macht.
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