Men are from Mars, Women fromVenus

From the seventies to the nineties there was a flourishing of American self-help manuals: how to strengthen self-esteem, how to understand yourself, how to improve your social performance and relationships with others. There is no lady who hasn’t read “Women Who Love Too Much” by Robin Norwood (in pure seventies awareness style), identifying herself with the pathetic figure hanging on the wire of a telephone that doesn’t ring. We’ve all had at least one look at Wayne Dyer’s “Your Wrong Zones” (1977) or Daniel Goleman’s “Emotional Intelligence”. But there is a text that has beaten all the others…