Sex, Love & Intimacy:

Current Issues & Counterintuitive Approaches
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. • 6.0 C.E. Hours

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Virtually all of us have grown up in a sex-negative family or culture. This affects not only our client's lives, but our own life and work as well. Whether through desire conflicts, chronic dissatisfaction, affairs, or dysfunctions, sexual issues form a large part of every therapist's practice. However, our sex-negative culture can make it difficult to deal with these issues effectively. This intermediate course will present innovative definitions of love, sex, and intimacy; discuss how our culture and psychotherapy confuse them; examine how patients can communicate about them more effectively; and explore strategies to understand them independent of each other. With plenty of specific case material, participants will learn a compelling new model of sexuality that focuses on its positive aspects.

TESTIMONIALS

Here are some comments about Dr. Klein's past programs:

"The best course on sexuality I've had."—LPC, Portland, Oregon, February 2, 2003

"The speaker is very entertaining and informed."—MFT, Portland, Oregon, February 2, 2003

"We can always count on you to keep the audience laughing while they are learning."—Mary Riemersma, Executive Director, California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists

"Dr. Klein's dynamic presentation style, clear expertise, and winning sense of humor quickly win over even difficult audiences. His ratings are consistently high."—National Association of Social Workers

"Your superb program covered a wide variety of issues in a practical, useful way, and your humor made the experience even more enjoyable."—Stanford University Medical School

"Those attending your training gave it an excellent rating. They found it entertaining and informative, and we are very pleased." —Idaho Psychological Association

TOPICS

• Sex, Love & Intimacy: Defining, Discussing, Enhancing
• How To Take a Useful and Brief Sexual History
• Cross-Cultural Aspects of Sexuality
• Does Therapy Take Sex Seriously?
• Diagnosis & Treatment of Sexual Desire Issues
• Sexual Aspects of Health Issues, including the effects of Aging, Illness and Medications
• Casual Sex, Affairs, and Alternative Sexual Behaviors
• Integrating Sex Counseling & Psychotherapy
• Treatment Plans & Homework Assignments
• Counter-transference Issues

GOALS

At the conclusion of this program you should be better able to:

• View psychosexual pathology in the context of society's sex-negativity.
• Assist clients in integrating eroticism into their relationships.
• Empower clients to make better sexual choices.

SPEAKER PROFILE
Marty Klein, Ph.D. has been a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#MFC15392) and Sex Therapist for over 20 years. His entire career has been aimed toward a single set of goals: telling the truth about sexuality, helping people feel sexually normal and powerful, and supporting the healthy sexual expression and exploration of women and men. He is the author of Your Sexual Secrets: When to Keep Them, When & How to Tell; Ask Me Anything: A Sex Therapist Answers the Most Important Questions, Let Me Count the Ways: Discovering Great Sex Without Intercourse, Sexual Intelligence: Politics, Culture, the Media, and Sex, The Erotic Prism: New Perspectives on Sex, Love, and Desire and Beyond Orgasm: Dare to be Honest About the Sex You Really Want. His books have been published in nine languages and are frequently excerpted in national magazines. In addition to his books, his publications include 160 articles on sex and relationships, and the provocative electronic newsletter Sexual Intelligence. His website www.SexEd.org gets 20,000 hits per month. He has appeared on radio in over 50 cities and on virtually every national talk show. His wit and expertise also make him a frequently quoted expert in Newsweek, USA Today, and Ann Landers. He has been elected as a national board member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, and was recently honored for Lifetime Literary Achievement by the California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists (CAMFT).