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 INSPIRING TALES OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
by Dr. Marvin H. Berenson

Inspiring Tales of Psychotherapy describes the case histories of eight people, suffering from depression, anxiety and compulsive eating who take the path of psychotherapy and guided imagery to find the underlying causes of their symptoms. We travel with these patients through the labyrinth of the unconscious to discover hidden and, at times, bizarre memories that hold the key to their recoveries. Although we share in their struggles to improve their lives, the true essence of these stories lies in witnessing their motivation and determination as they find that elusive path to health.

Inspiring Tales of Psychotherapy is about courage and growth, the pursuit of truth and insight and the belief that all obstacles can be overcome.

You will meet:
Sarah who awakened from a life-long nightmare believing she was a killer.

Harold brought back to life by the children he loved.

Angela, terror stricken, as she faced the belief that she would die if she gained only one more pound.

Carl whose rapid weight swings hid a tale of a sexual orgy and the death of a loved one.
Judy, a sprightly teenager, who rose up and defeated bulimia, drug addiction, and undesired, compulsive sex.

Scott and Marilyn who slept with a stranger in their bed.

Nancy who followed a path of mediocrity while obsessed with a need to be perfect.

Jeffrey who shed 200 pounds and overcame an early childhood trauma that had seemingly doomed him to an early death.



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 LOVING LIFE IN RETIREMENT
by Dr. Marvin H. Berenson

Loving Life in Retirement offers a comprehensive and effective program to transform thinking and behavior. The book presents a broad range of insights that can foster change and enrich the lives of seniors.

The book contains 52 mental imagery exercises uniquely developed to help seniors overcome negative thinking and behavior that interfere with finding happiness and fulfillment. Loving Life in Retirement offers psychological insights and ways for retirees to realize their happiness potential. Individual chapters are devoted to overcoming obstacles to change, creativity, sex for seniors, a diet and exercise program, understanding and overcoming emotional problems, romance, spirituality and the relationship between parents and their children and grandchildren.

I emphasize that real happiness in life doesn’t come from material possessions, but from an inner sense of self worth. Creativity, romance, learning to engage in nature, finding outlets that are fulfilling and maintaining optimism about life are the essential keys to happiness.

It is my purpose to help all seniors find new and more effective methods to achieve happiness. I fully believe that creating a happy and exciting retirement can be life-changing for countless numbers of retirees. In these problematic times, there is even a greater need for providing information that clearly defines ways to achieve peace, satisfaction and inner contentment. Developing a new and more fulfilling lifestyle is within reach of every older
person.

Endorsements
"Dr. Berenson has produced an extremely readable book - full of insight, knowledge and practical information that should enrich everyone's retirement years." - Marcia Kraft Goin, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Past President, American Psychiatric Association

“Dr. Berenson has written a highly motivational and practical guide to open new paths for retirees seeking a vital and fulfilling lifestyle. Enriched with powerful mental imagery exercises and methods the book fosters creativity, growth and change. Drawing upon his vast understanding of human nature Dr. Berenson includes a wide range of essential subjects that provides new perspectives for truly expanding retirees’ lives. This book will work for you.”
- Marion Solomon, Ph.D., Lecturer, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Author of Narcissism and Intimacy and Lean on Me



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 A GUIDE TO HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS
by Dr. Marvin H. Berenson

A Guide to Healthy Relationships reveals how couples overcome barriers to a happy and fulfilling relationship. You will learn why communication is the essential element in establishing intimacy and maintaining love. You will become aware of the pitfalls that face couples when they hide essential truths from each other. You will come to understand how incompatibility appears in many guises and how it undermines even the most committed lovers.

You will share the experiences of seven couples who face daunting challenges as they struggle to overcome formidable, yet typical, problems that beset many relationships.

A couple is almost destroyed by a past that resurfaced to wreak havoc upon a family and threatened to end their marriage.

A wife and husband deal with the destructive discovery of infidelity and the many causes that contributed to the breakdown of their marriage.

A young couple comes for premarital therapy only to discover an insidious and potentially destructive hidden agenda. By not assessing their degree of compatibility this young couple comes close to grief.

Through unrelenting courage and strength, a young mother battles terminal cancer and finds a way to leave her husband and children strengthened by her resolve, as she ultimately conquers her fear of dying.

A mismatched couple clash as they fight an uphill battle for equality and love. Their two small children learn to cope with vastly different parents.

A couple faces the problem of an unhappy husband who rebels against his role in raising his children and his professional wife who resists the responsibility of motherhood.

A Guide to Healthy Relationships helps you ask questions of yourself and of those you love. Everyone gains by facing the unknown that lies dormant within us. The seven couples who struggle to overcome barriers to love, self-reliance and independence provide the inspiration to seek new paths for ourselves.




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 LOVE AND SEX
by Dr. Marvin H. Berenson

Love and Sex first addresses the various ways that individuals can seek and find new friends and lovers. Love is boundless, but we need to reach out and grasp it. The quest for love awakens the imagination and revitalizes us at any age.

You will learn about barriers that exist from traumatic experiences, growing up in a dysfunctional family, poor choices in relationships and to the belief that you are loveless. Solutions are offered to overcome inner barriers and conflicts that interfere with your search for love. I encourage using a series of exercises to facilitate overcoming past difficulties that continue to play out. The objective is to become increasingly self-directed and free of inhibitions, guilt and fears related to love and sex.

Love and Sex emphasizes the inner peace and happiness brought about by having romance and intimacy in your life and how to achieve it. Couples learn the ways to increase mutual respect, share core elements and understand each other’s individuality as well as the togetherness that binds their closeness. A special chapter is devoted to helping older adults find romance. It is directed to those living alone and to reviving romance for those in a current relationship or marriage.

Finally, I discuss how to find the way to overcome deficiencies and sexual dysfunction. I describe mutual pleasuring, genital stimulation, ways to prolong intercourse and oral sex. I present tantric sex as an alternative to our usual sexual behavior and especially emphasize how it helps men and women prolong intercourse and find a new and more spiritual part of sex.

Sex is for all ages and can enhance self-esteem, excitement, newfound intimacy and a deepening spiritual connection and depth in relationships.


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 AWAKENING YOUR CREATIVITY
by Dr. Marvin H. Berenson

You are a creative person. You are filled with a sparkling imagination. You are entering a unique world where new vistas and new opportunities await. Developing your creativity stands in the foreground and blends the energies of inventiveness, exploration, spirituality and personal growth.

The world is replete with artists, writers, scientists, inventors, teachers and people from all walks of life, who reached their highest level of fulfillment as creative people. Obstacles and barriers were swept aside as they remained fully immersed in their creativity and continuing productiveness.

No matter what age you begin, whether you are 20, 60, 90 or even 100 you can unhesitatingly move into the beckoning arena of creativity. It is imperative that you believe in the potential that lies within you.

"Awakening Your Creativity" lights the way with techniques to overcome obstacles on your path. There are many mental imagery exercises that will help develop your creative spirit, and you will discover stirring ideas that will stimulate your imagination. As individuals, couples or as part of a group, you will find solutions, directions and stimulation to develop your interests in art, drama, writing, acting, and other creative pursuits.



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 THE PSYCHIATRIST’S DIET
by Dr. Marvin H. Berenson

The Psychiatrist’s Diet provides the two requirements in a good diet plan. First is a practical and effective, easy-to-use diet that will lead to losing weight and, second, is understanding how to gain permanent weight control, which I strongly believe depends on applying psychological principles and techniques that will prevent backsliding. No dieter wants to regain lost weight.

Both parts of the weight loss diet are easy to learn and easy to use. For many people the specific diet program alone, without the psychological tools, will provide a simple but extremely effective diet. Many dieters find that the new methods I introduce are sufficient to lose weight and develop permanent weight control.

However, learning the psychological principles and techniques is easy, takes little time and they work. For many dieters the psychological part will be exciting to discover and can be quickly incorporated into one’s lifestyle. A variety of psychological tools are provided that will benefit all dieters and those interested in developing and maintaining weight control.

The benefit of knowing psychological tools to facilitate weight control is extremely valuable to prevent slipping back into the need of repeated or yo-yo dieting. I strongly suggest that you learn both the actual diet program and the psychological tools.

The techniques that you will learn can also contribute to developing other areas of your life that you might want to change.

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 THE WORLD BEYOND TIME
by Marvin Berenson

Paul and Patricia are two people destined to rise above their ordinary lives into one of greatness. Their love story transcends the boundaries of time and encompasses ancient Rome, fifteenth century England, and pre-Civil War America. Through time travel and their transformation comes the hope of the world to confront the evil forces that threaten the very existence of the earth.

For the first time the past has been opened to humankind to determine if man can change the nature of his soul. Each past life attempts to rectify personal deficiencies focusing on hate, murder, rape, infidelity, power madness, spiritual longing and the struggle to love.
The success of their journeys into time is uncertain until the final reincarnation and the meaning of their journeys become clear. A way to bring the true power of universal love to humankind and maintain the continuing viability of life on earth is the goal. Such is the ultimate hope that will reward the two travelers who face death and the possibility of never being able to return to the 21st century.

Although primarily an adventure and love story The World Beyond Time reveals the universal struggle to find love and ultimately to transform one’s life. Facing the potential end of civilization God has opened the past to two people to determine if the transformation of the soul can lead to a radical change in man’s consciousness and change the course of history. The book deals with spiritual evolvement and the struggle to overcome personal deficiencies in the search to find a truer and more enlightened path in life. On its deepest level it is a spiritual odyssey.



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 WOODSON’S WORLD
by Marvin Berenson

In Woodson’s World, Greg Woodson, a computer genius and visionary, invents a Virtual Reality computer that enhances creativity and opens the future to an avalanche of inventiveness. New ideas pour from the minds of thousands that seem to have no boundaries. New avenues of social and political change are quickly developed. Woodson moves swiftly to fulfill his mission to finally realize the globalization of the world.

In a few short years over four billion computers, programmed for Virtual Reality, and completely controlled by Woodson are in the hands of the public. The dream of one man ruling the world, of becoming a virtual God, is about to be realized. The world rejoices as evidence of rapidly increasing social and political globalization accumulates. In an overwhelming experience in virtual reality the unification of the world’s religions begins.

Woodson’s power over the minds of the vast population of the world increases. Artists multiply; new methods for education and treatment of mental illness arise. The world is basking in their newfound creativity and highly imaginative sexuality. But obstacles appear. A worldwide rebellion of adolescents threatens the existence of Woodson’s world as they rise up against a society that attempts to curtail their exploration of sexuality in VR. Fearing his ascendancy to world dominance, the CIA and FBI begin to attack Woodson and plan his assassination.

Two women vie for the love of Greg Woodson. One wants to enhance his mission to change and improve the social and political structure of society. The other desires to promote his quest for world power and domination. Their struggle mounts as Woodson’s power intensifies.

Woodson’s World is a powerful, suspenseful work that takes you deeply into a man’s psyche and reveals the secrets that had set Woodson on his early path to world power. It is a blend of action, political intrigue, sexual and romantic adventures, the power of creativity, astonishing visions of a future world and a painful triangular love story that remains unresolved until the final shattering conclusion.



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 THE TWIN’S SOUL
by Marvin Berenson

Identical twins are abandoned at birth, separated and adopted by different parents. One, Ginny, born without a soul, grows up, desperate, frightened, and lacking a sense of self. The other, Carol, becomes an international celebrity renowned for her power and brilliance. At birth, her sister’s soul had mysteriously entered her body leaving her strangely empowered by two souls.

Guided by a mystic who unravels and interprets a strange dream that she has one night, Ginny finds her unknown sister and begins an extraordinary journey into a world filled with portents, love and hate. Elated by the discovery of her sister, Carol invites Ginny to spend the weekend with her family. Discovering that Carol and her husband, Wallace, live out a bizarre sexual relationship governed by humiliation and sadism, Ginny is shocked, but then is attracted to Wallace. During the long weekend Ginny gradually usurps Carol’s role as mother, wife and lover.

Carol, threatened with the loss of her life and home, strikes back, believing that Ginny is an intruder who must be destroyed. A series of events draws Ginny and Carol into a deadly confrontation that tears the sisters apart. Beset by powerful emotions they fall asleep and experience an overwhelming simultaneous dream that leads to an extraordinary interaction that transforms their lives and leads to an astonishing and life-changing revelation.




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 RESCUE
by Marvin Berenson

Rescue, set in 2011, tells the story of a courageous woman who devotes her life fighting the forces that promote global warming and worldwide pollution. The environmental predictions for the next 100 years are truly alarming. The evidence in the story is based on extensive scientific work conducted by prominent scientists. Unless a drastic change in our energy policies is set in motion in the very near future, catastrophe awaits us.

Sharleen Bradley, a brilliant, 36-year-old lawyer, is dedicated to awakening the population to the widespread and increasing dangers to our environment. Supported, initially, by a small group of people, she becomes a leader in the fight against pollution and establishes an organization, the Rescue Project, to help diminish and even eradicate the immense dangers to our environment. Her objective is to rescue the world from the hands of those who foster, wittingly or unwittingly, the demise of the earth as we now know it.

Growing alienation from Charles, her husband, leads Sharleen to a tumultuous affair that threatens her stability and ability to pursue her dream of protecting the earth and revitalizing our planet.

Despite misgivings, she leaves Charles and discovers that she has become the de facto slave of her lover, Cliff Westerman, a wealthy businessman. As her organization grows, Cliff arbitrarily takes over its leadership preventing Sharleen from guiding it. A major struggle ensues between them. Too late, she discovers that he has a background of violence, abuse and paranoia.

Meanwhile, Sharleen and her husband reconcile and realize a newfound love. Cliff discovers that Sharleen and Charles have resumed their relationship and accuses her of infidelity. Increasing jealousy thrusts Cliff into a period of emotional turmoil and paranoia. An overwhelming fear grips Sharleen as Cliff threatens to kill both Charles and herself.
The story rises to a climatic conclusion as Cliff’s paranoia plays out.



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 THE SEARCH FOR ARTHUR KINGSLEY
by Marvin Berenson

In The Search for Arthur Kingsley, a world-famous LA Times syndicated journalist, loved by millions for his strange, evocative stories, faces bewildering nightmares and a fear of impending insanity. No one knows that his fantasies of creating new worlds, demolishing social inequality, speaking with animals and trees, focusing and revealing with deadly accuracy the devastating  treachery of narrow-minded and misguided people come from his own distorted and frightening view of life. Although he is married with three young children he lives a solitary life tormented by his disturbing and alarming thoughts.

Although Kingsley is fearful of closeness, the love of a female journalist becomes a catalyst for uncovering memories of his childhood. Repeated dreams of death, blood, dismemberment and other horrors gradually lead him to insights about a grotesque childhood. Determined to discover the cause of these seemingly delusional episodes and ultimately to discover who he is, Kingsley begins a far-reaching quest to uncover his long forgotten past.

Tormented and haunted he intensifies his search to discover the meaning of his bizarre and terrifying memories that takes him into a world of political intrigue. As his search expands to Seattle  and Washington, DC, the mystery deepens. Continuous dreams reveal to him a childhood of murder, abandonment, deception and political intrigue. He and his girlfriend become targets for death, as his discoveries expose a series of crimes that threaten the political life of a powerful senator whose son is running for president.

 As he delves more and more deeply into his foreboding past he becomes obsessed with the need of discovering his identity which leads to a willful and potentially suicidal act.

The Search for Arthur Kingsley, a mystery novel filled with suspense, awakening love, intrigue and danger, combines the use of psychological insights, dreams, intuition and the power of love to uncover a sixty-year succession of crimes that began with the birth of a child. The story culminates in a surprising and shocking conclusion.
Marvin H. Berenson, M.D.

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