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What is your best tool for achieving the ultimate sexual pleasure? Your brain!
Everyone wants to know how to improve his or her love life, but so few of us understand the integral role the brain plays in getting… More >>
Product Description
What is your best tool for achieving the ultimate sexual pleasure? Your brain!
Everyone wants to know how to improve his or her love life, but so few of us understand the integral role the brain plays in getting… More >>
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The author wrote a book on sexuality, while considerably lacking knowledge about women and female sexuality.
Rating: 1 / 5
Pat Califa wrote, “Our culture insists on sexual uniformity and does not acknowledge any neutral difference only crimes, sins, disease and mistakes.”
Such we see represented in Dr. Amen’s book. Dr. Amen makes reference to what he considers normal sexually in his book. Like so many clinicians and diastognicians his normality is of a vanilla world. Anything outside of that is referred to as an imbalance in the brain or a disorder. My own research has been focused on debunking the myths about sexuality that are perpetuated in this book. The chapter on addictions and fetishes lacks any creative thinking whatsoever. Unfortunately I returned the book to the bookstore due to the limited thinking represented here.
Sincerely,
Ilona Paris, LMHC
Rating: 1 / 5
I had never heard about Dr. Daniel Amen until I saw him referenced in another book I was reading about gender influences on the brain. So I ordered the book, thinking “sex” was being used as a synonym for “gender”.
While waiting for the book to be delivered, I happened upon a lecture he was giving on PBS television about his work on brain health and SPECT imaging. Seeing this gave me a great introduction to his studies and some insight into this psychiatrist’s attitudes toward brain health and its influences on behavior.
Once the book arrived, still thinking the book was about gender influences on the brain, I read the first chapter. It turned out to be a sell job for the importance of an active sex life and how it can give you whiter, brighter teeth and reduce your home heating bills (I’m exaggerating). Realizing the book was about sexual activity, not gender, I was about ready to stop reading.
Then I got into the second chapter where he talks about the major brain systems and how behavior is influenced by over or under activity of these systems. I was hook. I poured through the rest of the book and learned some fascinating information about the direct link between the condition of these systems and human behaviors. To back up his claims, Amen gives examples from his psychiatric practice on problems he encountered during counseling, and how they were corrected through attention to the activity levels of these brain systems.
Skeptics might think Amen’s claims of a link between the health of these brain systems and behavior might be correlational versus causal (i.e. the unhealthy brain happened to exist during the unwanted behaviors, but was not causing the behaviors). But Amen uses the results of over 50,000 scans and empirical data to validate how his chemical and nutritional treatments correct these brain systems’ activity levels and thus the unwanted behaviors. (He takes a baseline scan, then treats the brain with counseling, drugs and/or nutrition and checks for changes on follow-up scans. From these scans, and his patients’ altered behaviors, he has sufficient evidence to show a cause and effect of his approach.)
So the book was disappointing in that I thought it was going to focus on gender, but it was fascinating because of what it was about. One criticism I have about the book, if you are buying it for the sexual slant, is that after the first chapter, his connection between the brain and a healthy sex life seems like an after thought. In other words, he will spend a lot of time talking about the prefrontal cortex and how it plays into violent behavior, then he’ll add, “and if your husband is violent, it would be hard to want to have sex with him.” (I paraphrase…). It’s almost like he gets into his brain discussions and then remembers he’s supposed to be showing how his discussion ties into a couple’s sexual activities.
All in all I would recommend this book. Especially if you want to know about how the health of the brain influences behavior.
Rating: 5 / 5
This explains how guys are different from us females, on a much deeper level. It gives good tips on how to start, & keep a good, lasting relationship going. It explains how different situations can damage the brain, thus causing an individual to act the way they do.
Rating: 4 / 5
Everyone knows that men and women are different, but this book tackles the “battle of the sexes” from a fresh perspective. I’m sure many eyes will be opened, as mine were, by this book’s frank look at how our brains function and why that affects our most intimate relationships. This could be a marriage saver for many. Thanks Dr. Amen!
Rating: 5 / 5