What women want

In What Women Want , psychoanalyst Maxine Mei-Fung Chung presents the stories of seven of her patients and explores issues such as trauma, gender, sexuality and mental health to find answers about female desire.

Sigmund Freud once said, "The great unanswered question, and one that I myself have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of studying the female soul, is: 'What does a woman want, after all?'" In her more than 15 years of clinical experience, psychoanalyst Maxine Mei-Fung Chung has observed that working with her patients might yield some answers. Based on hours of consultation and her extensive clinical experience, Chung believes she has found some of the answers to the question of a woman's true desires.

In What Women Want , Maxine Mei-Fung Chung presents the results of her important clinical work in a deeply intimate, empathetic, and truthful way. Her nonfiction debut places women at the center of her research, drawing on the profound and moving accounts of seven of her patients, and offers a fearless and profound look at the feminine universe.

What Women Want offers tools for every woman to free herself, to reclaim her own way of existing in the world and to finally understand: desiring is an action.

“Fascinating… This book is a valuable contribution to a wider debate about how women can take control of their desires and express them in a patriarchal culture that still prefers us silenced and passive.” — Observer

Renowned psychoanalyst Maxine Mei-Fung makes her nonfiction debut with a work that presents itself as a call to action […]. Exploring issues such as trauma, gender, sexuality, and mental health, What Women Want offers a profound and thought-provoking reflection on female desire and addresses these women's stories in a captivating and gentle way. Read it! — Glamour UK