Here the author of the national bestsellers, Care of the Soul & Soul Mates turns to the shadow side of loving: it's cruelties, perversions, & appalling tortures. Bravely & with brilliant insights, Thomas Moore exposes the repulsive fictions of the Marquis de Sade to learn what they teach about the horrors hidden in the human heart. Thomas Moore's eye can see into the darkness, revealing the poetic & imaginative powers that lie within violence & sexual victimization. By returning to the paradox of ancient medicine - the cause of a disease is its very cure - Thomas Moore opens the way through the sadism that affects family, education, love affairs, the work place, & politics.