For women going through comprehensive psychotherapy will find this book so helpful and relieving. relieving is probably the better word. for all women searching for meaning and clarity in their therapeutic relationship, this book is essential. It is so critical to use the dynamics of the relationship between a woman and her therapist for therapeutic gain. this book gives you perspective and a way to approach all the intense, confusing and seemingly crazy feelings that women have for their therapists. i would probably not have stayed with my therapy if it wasn't for this book. this book helped me feel ok with my feelings and gave me the courage to bring them up in therapy which has totally changed the course of therapy for me in a good way. i can't begin to tell you how much this book has helped.