Riding Dragons is a groundbreaking work. Through courageously honest self-examination, Philip and Vellie Helfaer explore their difficulties in achieving an intimate relationship. They turn the spotlight on their own early childhood traumas - violations of developing sexuality, and injuries to their developing selves. They evolve innovative and creative ways to understand and overcome, to become whole again. The authors struggle, they try to support each other and sometimes fail.

Not since the films of the great director Ingmar Bergman has there been such an honest exploration of a relationship between two individuals who struggle to seek what everyone wants: acceptance, understanding, deepest intimacy and union in marriage and in love. Riding Dragons is a daring experiment, a fierce commitment to the self, to personal growth, and most of all, to the beloved other.