Helen Singer Kaplan
Helen Singer Kaplan · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychiatrist and pioneer of modern sex therapy
1929, Vienna, Austria — 1995, New York City, United States
Austria · United States
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Helen Singer Kaplan was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychologist who pioneered modern sex therapy, founding the first sexual disorders clinic at a US medical school (at Cornell/New York Hospital). Her triphasic model of sexual response (desire, arousal, orgasm) and her integration of behavioral and psychodynamic methods reshaped clinical treatment of sexual dysfunction. She was born into a Jewish family and fled Nazi Europe as a child.
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Psychiatrist and pioneer of modern sex therapy
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