The Complicated Man

About the Book

Men were handed a script.
This book burns it.

Masculinity was supposed to be simple: perform, provide, don't ask questions. Sexuality was supposed to be simpler still. But desire doesn't follow orders — and neither do men, no matter how hard they pretend to.

"Men are simple is not a discovery. It is not something we learned about male human beings by studying them."

The Complicated Man is a psychiatrist's candid exploration of male desire, shame, intimacy, and identity — drawn from twenty years in the consulting room. Six parts, twenty-one chapters, and one argument: the inner life men were told they didn't have has been there all along.

Edward Ratush MD

Psychiatrist · Author

Dr. Ratush has spent his career at the intersection of psychiatry and sexuality, helping men untangle who they are from who they were told to be.

Men were handed a script.
This book burns it.

Edward Ratush MD

Some truths land differently when you hear them.

Start anywhere. Stay as long as you like.

Men were handed a script.This book burns it.

Edward Ratush MD

Some truths land differently when you hear them.

Start anywhere. Stay as long as you like.

Men were handed a script.
This book burns it.