What Women and Men Really Want : Creating Deeper Understanding and Love in Our Relationships

What Women and Men Really Want tells the story of a week long, encounter between a group of women and men. In this account of a groundbreaking summit meeting of the sexes Dr. Kipnis and Elizabeth Herron guide the participants toward mutual respect, understanding and compassion. Through a series of adventures and encounters, the participants learn how to communicate the potent depths of anger, fear, grief, love and appreciation between women and men. They also discover a way to create a map for peace between the sexes, a vision in which women and men can recognize and respect both their genuine differences and shared challenges.

Weaving together dialogues from the participants' discussions along with the latest ideas about differences between the sexes, Kipnis and Herron present a detailed and surprisingly optimistic portrait of the potential for communication and personal growth between women and men, growth that celebrates diversity, rather than condemning it. Provocative, fresh and powerful, What Women and Men Really Want begins a new era of understanding and partnership between the sexes.

Aaron Kipnis, Ph.D. Over the last 20 years Dr. Aaron Kipnis has taught courses in male psychology and gender issues for various training institutes and universities, including Harvard Medical School, University of Wisconsin, Purdue and UC Berkeley. He has facilitated workshops for gender reconciliation between women and men, as well as advising organizations ranging from Planned Parenthood and the U.S. Forest Service to the Government of Colombia. He is in demand as a keynote presenter for professional conferences such as the California Marriage and Family Therapists Association, and corporations such as Time Warner Inc.

Aaron's work has been widely featured in metropolitan newspapers, national magazines and he has appeared on The Today Show, Geraldo, Montel, News Talk Television, CNBC Newsmagazine, CNN's Sonya Live, Leeza and many others national talk shows.

Dr. Kipnis is a contributor to various journals and a dozen chapters in books such as The Shadow In America, To Be a Man and The Best of Utne Reader. He has written two critically acclaimed books on gender issues: Knights Without Armor and the co-authored What Women and Men Really Want. Aaron is president of the Fatherhood Coalition and on the faculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute where he trains new clinicians in depth psychology. Currently, he is writing a book on young men at risk for incarceration titled Bad Boys: The Trouble With Young Men and How We Can Help (Jossey Bass Publishers, Oct. '99).