THIS is a book that goes to the heart of the psychoanalytic project. It's a book about love—what enables it, what inhibits it—and how charting the development of love gives us the critical map for charting the development of being human.

Gilligan is widely known for her groundbreaking study of female development, In a Different Voice, published in 1982. From there, she went on to study adolescent girls and the abdication of voice that appeared to characterize girls’ transition into womanhood. She coauthored a number of books based in that research. Now, in a marvelously crafted account of how love goes wrong in Western culture, Gilligan gives us her own