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The Ackerman Institute for the Family Alumnae/i Association Meeting proudly presents 

“Ten Things Psychotherapists Need to Know About Sex” 

with Dr. Marty Klein

Friday, May 11, 2012
5:30 - 6:30 reception 
6:30 - 8:30 presentation 

Please join us for our next Alumni Association Meeting on Friday, May 11, 2012, when Dr. Marty Klein, marriage & family therapist, sex therapist, and forensic expert. will be our guest speaker. 

Most psychotherapists deal with sexuality and sexual issues in one form or another on a routine basis. And yet many of us are in uncharted territory, not having clear ways to think about these deeply human concerns. The range of dilemmas from affairs, infertility, pornography, sex addiction, discrepant desire, aging to cyber sex can be daunting.  How does sexuality interface with issues of power, anxiety, intimacy, guilt, shame and isolation.

We’ll also look at how clients construct self-defeating narratives about sexuality. With our own prejudices and anxieties,  therapists can unwittingly collude with these narratives, and,  at times interfere with and undermine treatment. The mechanics of sex; erection, lubrication and orgasm can be easier to address than the complex narratives, beliefs and negative feelings associated with sex.

These issues and dilemmas will be the subject of the fourth Alumnae lecture on Friday May 11. In addition to treating sexual problems, Dr. Klein has formulated new ways to think about the cultural context that contributes to these difficulties. He is particularly interested in the ways that psychology, medicine and the legal system that maintain pathology-based narratives that keep professionals and clients stuck. Dr. Klein’s talks are simultaneously practical, thought provoking and entertaining.

Dr. Marty Klein is the author of seven books about sexuality, including America’s War On Sex, honored as 2007 Book of the Year by AASECT. His new book is Sexual Intelligence: What We Really Want From Sex, And How to Get It. “Psychology Today” raves, “Read this book if you want to improve your sex life.”

RSVP by May 7, 2012 to Rebecca Kucsan at rkucsan@ackerman.org or (212) 879-4900 ext. 140

Please register and pay your fee prior to the lecture. Alumnae/i must pay the $60 annual fee to attend. Alumnae/i dues may be paid online. The fee for students is $10 per lecture; the fee for guests is $25 per lecture.

 

Alumnae/i News Archive

Read about our March 2012 Alumni Lecture

Read about our January 2012 Alumni Lecture

Read about our October 2011 Alumni Lecture

Katherine J. Burns, class of 1980, will be relocating in the beginning of January 2011 to Rochester Hills, Michigan. She will be back in New York one week a month to maintain her private practice.

Elana Lesser Bruun co-authored Marrying Well: The Clinician’s Guide to Premarital Counseling with Anne Ziff, published by W.W. Norton in 2010.

Carafu Clemente, LSW class of ’91, has a son Peter Kelly, who is going to be married in the Philippines next year to Edna Panganiban. She was also blessed with a sixth grandchild and took a three week trip to Australia where she dove off the great Barrier Reef and rode camels in the outback—should be on everyone’s bucket list.

Bob Eakin, extern '74-'75, ended his affiliation with the Peninsula Counseling Center. Now based full time in New York City, he and a colleague have founded Families-In-Transition NYC which involves co-leading groups of single parents and their children (separate groups for mothers and fathers). In his private practice he is seeing more couples and found the recent conference with Sue Johnson useful.

Fred Sander, extern ’67-8, will be editing and re-publishing W.S. Gilbert’s 1870 play Pygmallion and Galatea. The play deals with a sculptor who has made clones of his wife, one of which comes to life. The book is an interdisciplinary look at how humans replicate one another in the images they have of each other. He has called this the Pygmalion-Galatea Process, which is especially prominent in couples and families. Six distinguished authors are contributing essays on the reproduction of the gender roles in Victorian England, how people replicate themselves in art, the ethics of biogenetic engineering, an introduction to genetics, and the current state of stem cell research, all of which greatly deepen the reading experience of his original interpretation of the play. Go to www.createdinourownimages.com to join the discussion on-line. International Psychoanalytic Books will publish the book.

Netwon Schiller is currently conducting EI (Early Interventions) dealing with speech/ language pathologies of children and counseling with their parents for the Westchester DOH (Department of Health).