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To address this issue, Helen Singer Kaplan proposed an alternate three-stage model in 1979 and introduced the concept of desire into normal sexual responses. In this model, desire leads to arousal, then plateau and is followed by orgasm and resolution.
Nov 15, 2023 · Recognizing the importance of “desire” as a motivating factor in sexual response, Kaplan reframed her “biphasic model” of sexual response (emphasizing a separation of excitement and orgasm) to a “triphasic model” that incorporated a desire phase.
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Children. 3. Helen Singer Kaplan (February 6, 1929 – August 17, 1995) was an Austrian-American sex therapist and the founder of the first clinic in the United States for sexual disorders established at a medical school. The New York Times described Kaplan as someone who was "considered a leader among scientific-oriented sex therapists.
- Austria, United States (1947), Bahamas
Nov 1, 2000 · In 1977, Helen Singer Kaplan proposed an alternative model that highlighted the aspects of sexual response she regarded as most relevant. 6 Rather than a four-phase model, she proposed a triphasic approach, with desire given first place, reflecting its importance in triggering the entire cycle.
From these data, they identified four successive (hence, linear) stages: (1) excitement, (2) plateau, (3) orgasm, and (4) resolution. The first phase, excitement, refers to the initial physiological sexual arousal response as characterized by increased heart rate, respiration, and blood pressure.
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- 2017
As a result, she proposed her model of the sexual response cycle which includes three phases: desire, excitement, and orgasm. She argues that these three phases are interconnected, yet they have different neurophysiological mechanisms.
Kaplan’s Triphasic Model. Helen Singer Kaplan was a sex therapist seeking a model that would aid her in explaining the sexual response cycle to her clients. Kaplan adjusted Masters and Johnsons’ model by adding the desire phase and reduced excitement and plateau to just the excitement phase in which she focused on vasocongestion occurring.
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