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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.
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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Helen Singer Kaplan was a pioneer in the field of sex therapy, founding the country’s first clinic for sexual disorders established at a medical school. Dr. Kaplan was considered a leader among scientific-oriented sex therapists.
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.
Oct 10, 2019 · During Kaplan’s time at the Payne Whitney Clinic, she developed the Triphasic Model of human sexual response, which breaks down the sexual response cycle into three phases: the sexual desire phase, the excitement phase, and the resolution phase.
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Sep 5, 2010 · In the fall of 1986 I applied to study sex therapy under one of the greatest sex therapists of our time—Helen Singer Kaplan. I was fresh out of my doctoral program and I was feeling...
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Kaplan left a most important and critical legacy, in being one of the first clinicians to both conceptualize and utilize a treatment that combined the use of pharmaceuticals and sexual...
