Sex, Love and Your Personality

The Nine Faces of Intimacy

By: Mona Coates Ph.D., Judith Searle

Narrated by: Judith Searle

Length: 14 hrs

Publisher's summary

Sex, Love and Your Personality: The Nine Faces of Intimacy is the first book to describe in detail the sex and love problems commonly encountered by each of the nine basic personality types. It is also the first to offer a field-tested assessment tool for predicting whether a particular intimate relationship is likely to endure and/or be satisfying.

The book presents this groundbreaking material in the form of detailed case studies from sex therapist Mona Coates' 35-year practice that eloquently describe individuals of different personality styles struggling to understand themselves and their partners. In case after case, Coates' unique Five Factors compatibility assessment tool successfully predicts which relationships will stand the test of time. This innovative approach gives the book special value not only for couples contemplating lifetime commitments but also for professional therapists and counselors.

Mona Coates' decades of experience as a nationally certified sex therapist and sex educator, licensed marriage and family therapist, and certified Enneagram instructor, plus her 37 years as a college professor of sociology-psychology/human sexuality, establish her indisputable authority in her field. Coauthor Judith Searle, a distinguished Enneagram author (The Literary Enneagram: Characters from the Inside Out, Metamorphous Press, 2001) and teacher, is the author of five published books.

©2011 Mona Coates and Judith Searle (P)2013 Mona Coates and Judith Searle

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What did you like best about Sex, Love and Your Personality? What did you like least?

Would be nice if those of us who purchased audio book could have a link to the test she talks about throughout the entire book. She states those who have the hard copy have one. Seemingly, audio purchasers get less...

so educational

couldn't put this one down! completely fascinating and such an eye opener. I learned a lot about myself.

Biased View on the Science

Some very good advice amidst the tragedy of broken lives. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Her bias and presuppositions with her failure to see the obvious pitfalls in her client's behaviors are glaring mistakes in her practice. She comes across as genuine but also acute to expressing her bias in the tragic situations that have come to her for counsel.

A night club stripper working her way through grad school is encouraged to dispel the yoke of her fundamental Christian upbringing, as though it was a negative experience. There is no discussion on the dangers and physical temptations to such a job before barely bridled men. There is not discussion on the value that the stripper is subjecting herself to and the promotion of another man's misogyny. No, there is no address of these faults. But the sweeping judgement of parents who loved the stripper and brought her up in the way of the Lord is clearly pointed out as the evil. How narrow minded and ignorant.