Reviews

If Men Could Talk was published in English by Little, Brown and Company, February 2001, and in paperback, February 2002. An international bestseller, the book is still in the process of being translated and published in more than 20 languages/countries including most of Europe, China, Japan, Korea, Israel and Brazil.

“A wonderfully insightful look into the hearts and minds of men. It offers women useful advice about how to bring out the best in men as well as tips for us guys about how to get a life emotionally. An excellent, memorable, useful book.”

- Edward Hallowell, M.D. author of Driven to Distraction and Connect and Human Moments.

“Filled with advice and stories that are surprising and shocking, this book will change the way you look at your relationships. So universal are the book’s concepts that it has already been bought for translation and publication in many countries… Dr. Gratch gives you the tools to listen so you can interpret and understand the inner world of men. If Men Could Talk… is men in translation.”

- Mardia Stone, M.D., African Sun Times

“This book is different…Gratch skillfully explores the roots of men’s most painful feelings... and movingly documents the ways in which we are warped by them. In doing so, he displays a broad knowledge of literature, history and popular culture—citing everyone from Freud to John Gray—as well as a rigorous and nimble approach to the causes of the problems plaguing the men whose case studies form the basis of his theories… Do men want their girlfriends and wives to understand them? Of course. Might this book help foster that understanding? Sure. Is it a cause for celebration that an author is promoting reflection and empathy rather than gimmicks and deceit? Absolutely…”

- Steve Friedman, Elle

"Few therapists have been able to engage the non-professional reader while remaining clinically responsible. Dr. Gratch has done just that, telling each clinical anecdote in a moving, compelling way. He is clearly not only a good clinician but a literate and interesting man."

- Olga Silverstein, CSW, author of The Courage to Raise Good Men

"It's a fact that many women dispute, but-behind closed doors-men really do talk. From his vantage point as a clinical psychologist, Alon Gratch has long been aware of this fact, and now, in a Little Brown February release, If Men Could Talk: Here's What They'd Say, he shares insights and tips on how the sexes can better communicate. Breaking male behavior into seven categories, including self-involvement, aggression and sexual acting-out, Gratch uses anecdotes and examples drawn from his 20 years of practice. The book, which follows the tradition of John Gray's Mars and Venus series and Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand, 'is a great combination of the entertaining and the provocative, and at the same time tremendously helpful,' notes senior editor Judy Clain. 'Men do talk, they just speak in a different language, and the author gives readers-particularly women-skills and tools for decoding male conversation.'"

- Publishers Weekly