★ We tend to assume that things go wrong in intimate relationships because we lack "technique" or "compatibility." The truth is that we rarely get into bed alone. Shame, anxiety, people-pleasing, fear, control — and a whole stack of childhood scripts — crawl under the covers with us.

★ This book is about the "ghosts" hiding in our beds: the psychological syndromes, complexes, and scripts that run our desire and our patterns of intimacy without our knowledge, and quietly sabotage both.

★ An all-star team of psychological experts — practicing sexologists, psychologists, and specialists — dissects 22 real-life scenarios from a range of professional perspectives, revealing the psychological truth behind intimate relationships.

★ This book helps you identify and send away the "ghosts" that have taken up permanent residence in your intimate life. For anyone who feels confused about sex, carries a problem too embarrassing to speak of, or keeps falling into the same pattern.

Also in the series: The "Ghost" in Your Wallet: 25 Subconscious Curses That Steal Your Wealth

This book is the follow-up to the bestselling Russian series A Zoo in Your Head, which has sold over 100,000 copies and has been licensed for publication in China. The previous volume dealt with the psychological patterns inside our heads; this one moves the camera lower — to the bed — and focuses on the most private and most vulnerable territory of all.

Sex is not an exam you have to score well on. It deserves curiosity, respect, and gentleness — not constant self-judgment against a "normal/abnormal" yardstick. The book examines 22 sexual-psychological syndromes that shape intimate relationships, from "Father Frost Syndrome" to "Othello Syndrome," from "Madonna and Whore" to "Don Juan Panic." These are the "ghosts" that have long lived in your bed and keep you from fully enjoying your sex life.

An all-star team of psychological experts — practicing sexologists, psychologists, and specialists — dissects 22 concrete scenarios from different professional angles, revealing the psychological truth behind intimate relationships. They help you recognize the "bedroom ghosts" hidden in your subconscious, see the scripts you keep repeating in love, and identify and send away the ghosts that have taken up residence in your intimate life.

【Authors】Russia's all-star team of practicing psychological experts

Sergei Sichinsky (senior sex and relationship counselor and psychoanalyst, specializing in resolving intimacy disorders and subconscious conflicts in adults)
Irina Taiva Kumar (leading expert in emotional and behavioral therapy, focused on emotional manipulation and self-rescue in modern relationships between men and women)
Lada Kovaltsova (senior psychotherapist specializing in dispelling fear and anxiety in intimate attachment)
Makar Bondarenko (analyzes the psychology of the sexes through behavioral economics and game theory)
Ani Kovaltsova (young sex psychologist focusing on clinical sexological syndromes)
Andrei Pronin (psychological coach specializing in the mechanisms of communication between the sexes)
Tatyana Kholost (expert in insecurity in intimate relationships and emotional repair)
Anna Kurdoshina (senior counselor with deep insight into the subconscious iceberg of marriage and romance)
Yulia Hill (sex-psychology writer devoted to women's psychological awakening and egalitarian communication between the sexes)
Veronika Nemekina (specialist in body anxiety and orgasmic disorder intervention)
Ilya Suslov (nationally certified psychologist skilled at deconstructing relationship misconceptions from a male perspective)
Galina Meleshina (couples therapist focusing on "sex versus love" conflicts between partners)
Maria Barbar (a scourge of codependency and pathological attachment)
Ksenia Panin (pioneering sexologist focusing on the fear of intimacy among modern urban men and women)
Natalia Preminina (senior psychological counselor skilled at dispelling the "invisible ghosts" of sexual psychology through cognitive restructuring)