Praise for Reclaiming Your Sexual Self

"Kathryn Hall takes a fresh and refreshing new look at why so many women are not really interested in sex. A uniquely helpful book."

Harriet Lerner, Ph.D, author of The Dance of Anger

In this clear and friendly book, Dr. Hall explained to me what really increases sexual desire in women. And it’s not hormones or drugs. Every man should know this, and every doctor too.

David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D, author of The Instinct to Heal

Reclaiming Your Sexual Self is a truly terrific book! Kathryn Hall provides compelling reasons as to why so many women lose their lust for sex (if they ever had it) and what they can to revive or discover their sexual selves. Women don’t need medicine or magic to feel desire but rather reasons and motivation. This book provides sound strategies and sensible suggestions for overcoming sexual inertia and finding genuine satisfaction.”

Sandra Leiblum, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Sexual & Relationship Health
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Author of Getting the Sex You Want: A woman’s guide to becoming proud, passionate and pleased in bed.

Reclaiming Your Sexual Self provides exercises, practical advice, and case studies to help women with low sexual desire. The approach encourages women to see low sexual desire in terms of their relationships and their past life experiences.  This book offers an alternative approach to the medicalization of the most common sexual dissatisfaction experienced by women.

Beverly Whipple, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor Emerita, Rutgers, The State University of NJ
Vice President, World Association for Sexology (2001-2005)
Director, International Society for the Study of Women's
Sexual Health (2002-2004)
Past-president, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
Past-president, American Association of Sex Educators, Counselor
and Therapists
Co-author: The G spot and Other Recent Discoveries about Human Sexuality, Safe Encounters: How Women can say Yes to Pleasure and No to Unsafe Sex, Smart Women, Strong Bones, and Outwitting Osteoporosis.

Reclaiming Your Sexual Self  provides useful information and practical advice in a lively and insightful way. A refreshing aspect of the book is the absence of simple solutions for women who have lost interest in sex. Dr. Hall dispels common myths about hormonal causes of sexual dysfunction and puts sexual desire back into the context of women’s lives and relationships. 

Cynthia A. Graham, Ph.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Gender Studies
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology,Department of Psychiatry,
Indiana University
Director of Graduate Education
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction

This interesting and eminently readable book comes at a critical time for women pressured to seek chemical solutions to low sexual desire.  Dr. Hall helps women to understand what causes and maintains low desire and suggests various solutions through a series of practical exercises. The book contains a wealth of information that will empower women to “reclaim” and not “blame” themselves.

Lana Stermac, Ph.D.
Professor, Counseling Psychology Program
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

Highly, Highly, Highly Recommended for Everyone, Not Just Women With Low Desire. Kathryn Hall is an excellent sex therapist and she treats low desire as a messenger rather than as a disease. Men and women both will be able to find approaches in her book that can help them better understand and give meaning to lost desire.  She believes that low desire means different things to different people, and she presents a number of ways of approaching it. Fortunately, she is not beholden to the drug companies and realizes the short-sightedness of automatically throwing pills or patches at whatever ails you.

Paul Joannides, author of the Guide To Getting It On! 4th edition

Dr. Hall begins with the fundamental premise that our sexual self is much more than the sum of our biological parts.  Not surprisingly, then, her book is an intelligent and frank presentation of the personal and interpersonal forces that shape our sexual interest and desire and the effective strategies for their control.  A must read for every woman who wishes to understand better this important aspect of her identity.  Indeed, the many who are searching for sexual desire in an easy-to-swallow pill form may be pleasantly surprised to find it in this easy-to-read book form.

Gerianne M. Alexander, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Texas A&M University

Everyone needs to be informed about sexuality. A wonderful sex life comes no more automatically than a wonderful trip to Paris. Preparation can help people find the good parts and deal with problems. Dr. Hall's book is addressed to women who feel they have problems with sexual desire and it includes many vignettes, suggestions, exercises for reflection, further references, and excellent insights based on her experience as a sex therapist. I will recommend this book to my patients.

Leonore Tiefer, Ph.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
New York University School of Medicine

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