Award-Winning Audios
That Entertain, Educate, and Inspire
by Dr. Marty Klein

 

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Funny, Provocative, Unpredictable! Share these tapes with your mate, give them to your teens, or enjoy their entertaining, uplifting message on your own. You'll never think about sex in quite the same way again!

Talking With Your Kids About Sex

While most parents want to support their kids' healthy sexual development, very few feel knowledgeable or comfortable enough to do an adequate job. This talk provides an overall approach as well as specific answers, covering topics such as:

• How to share your sexual values along with sexual information
• Why teaching abstinence is not enough
• How to help your child handle the media's sexual messages
• How to handle your own embarrassment

 

Professional Seminars

Each audio set is a valuable training opportunity for:

Psychologists Social Workers Marriage & Family Therapists

Clergy Physicians Substance Abuse Counselors

Nurses Graduate Students

Working With Couples:
Successful Approaches to Challenging Cases
  (4 CDs, 4 hours)

Working with couples can be an exciting & rich experience. But it often includes repetitive battling with clients; complaints that you don't understand one or both of them; the sense of being watched and judged; and unnecessary treatment failures.

This seminar will give you tools to make couples therapy more robust and more personally satisfying.

Topics covered include:

• Doing a high-impact intake that also motivates
• Helping couples set goals for therapy
• Helping couples negotiate--& keep--agreements
• Helping couples cooperate when angry
• What makes a good question?
• Evaluating and working with health issues
• Identifying and challenging couples' narratives
• The myth of "we have a communication problem"
• Using language to communicate with couples' unconscious, so they learn on multiple levels

This program will make your work deeper & more personally satisfying-and you'll have fun listening!

Diagnosis & Treatment of Sexual Issues
   (3 tapes/5 CDs, 5 hours)

Edited from Dr. Klein's popular full-day training seminars, this entertaining and insightful, 5-hour set addresses the sexual, intimacy, and relationship issues every helping professional faces. These tapes will challenge your thinking, deepen your skill, enhance your confidence--and make you laugh along the way. Topics include:

• Effective history-taking
• Transference & countertransference
• Rethinking the sexual response cycle
• Male & female sexual functioning
• Power dynamics in sexual relationships
• Sexual aspects of health issues
• Refocusing our clinical language
• Sex beyond intercourse
• Shaping clients' sexual decision-making

Power, Anger, Trust, & Communication
   (5 CD, 5 hours)

Therapists see unresolved power issues all the time--for example, when clients are passive-aggressive, break agreements, or withhold sex. Chronic anger often results, which makes trust difficult to maintain. In such an environment, couples refuse to compromise, partners lie or keep secrets, and relationships lack the good will necessary for self-soothing. This workshop examines how power, anger, and trust issues interact in couples' systems--and how this can make communication impossible or even counter-productive. Topics include:

• Configurations of power/anger/trust
• How clients express power dynamics
• Distancer-pursuer couples
• Agreements--keeping, breaking, discussing
• Why sexuality involves power dynamics
• Working with raging couples
• Empowering wounded clients
• Therapists' myths about communication
• How therapists collude with victims
• Transference & countertransference

Male Sexuality: From Virginity to Viagra
   (2 CDs, 2 hours)

Working with men and their sexuality presents unique challenges--and opportunities. This set provides plenty of material to help you work effectively with these issues.

In these 2 fast-paced, funny seminars, Marty articulates and then addresses the common issues every therapist faces in dealing with male sexuality, including:

• How does sexuality change--and not change--as men age?
• When is an erection problem not an erection problem?
• Sexual impact of health issues
• Sexual side effects of prescription drugs
• Myths men believe about sex--that therapists believe, too
• Non-traditional interests, like S/M and swinging
• Masturbation and pornography

Plus, you'll find out how erection drugs work; who they're good for; and common unintended consequences of these drugs.

Love, Sex, & Intimacy:
Working More Effectively with Individuals and Couples
   (2 CDs, 2 hours)

Everyone has opinions about love, sex, and relation-ships--which poses a special challenge for therapists.

These innovative, thought-provoking talks focus on the structure of therapeutic interactions: What do we know about love, intimacy, and sex--and the relationship between them? How can we help clients overcome the extraordinary myths continually thrown at them by the media? How can therapists recognize and minimize these influences on our work?

Marty discusses various beliefs therapists have about love, intimacy, power, anger, and loss, and shows how they affect our work. He also presents creative ways of thinking about clients' decision-making, so you can better help clients change.

Regardless of your clinical orientation or style, these lectures will make you laugh, think--and work more effectively with both couples and individuals

Erection Drugs: Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?
   (1 CD, 1 hour)

Millions of men and their partners use Viagra or other erection drugs. For some, they facilitate intimacy and pleasure. For others, the drugs exacerbate problems of power, communication, and resentment. Complicating matters, physicians and the media often encourage unrealistic expectations. This program discusses:

• When and why these drugs work
• How patients experience them
• Preparing patients for using them
• Helping patients handle their "Viagra failures"
• How to encourage sexual communication
• Alternatives to the medical model of sexual dysfunction

Existential Issues in Psychotherapy & Couples Counseling
   (2 CDs, 3 hours)

Existential issues are internal conflicts arising from the ongoing, inescapable confrontation with the givens of human existence, such as isolation, powerlessness, and the desire for meaning.

This seminar explains how people defend themselves from these painful struggles--with behavior & thinking (the 'symptoms') that bring them into therapy. Learn how to help patients understand that truths like these are the real issues with which they are grappling:

• Loving always involves pain.
• We are responsible for how we behave--regardless of how we are treated.
• We have made life choices with consequences we don't like.
• We can't prevent those we love from suffering.

Because clinicians and patients struggle with the same existential truths, they often unconsciously collude to avoid facing these challenges, leading to treatment errors and therapy drop-outs.

This creative presentation describes a practical framework therapists can use to identify, explore and resolve these common, intense, and often unaddressed challenges.