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Desire, arousal, and orgasm
- A psychologist and psychiatrist by training, Kaplan viewed human sexual response as a triphasic phenomenon, consisting of separate—but interlocking—phases: desire, arousal, and orgasm.
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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.
A psychologist and psychiatrist by training, Kaplan viewed human sexual response as a triphasic phenomenon, consisting of separate—but interlocking—phases: desire, arousal, and orgasm. She concluded that "desire" phase disorders are the most difficult to treat, being associated with deep-seated psychological difficulties.
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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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.
The remaining two phases of Kaplan’s triphasic model essentially represented an amalgamation of the excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution phases delineated by Masters and Johnson.
- David Rowland, Brittany R Gutierrez
- 2017
updated her “biphasic” model to a “triphasic” one (desire, arousal, orgasm), influencing (as did Lief independently, 1977) all clinicians who followed. Yet, it was Kaplan’s first book,
Kaplan. 3 Stage Model of Sexual Response. While Masters and Johnson propose a four-stage model of human sexual response (excitement, plateau, orgasm, resolution), Helen Singer Kaplan's model has only three stages: desire, excitement and orgasm.
