Helen Singer chaplain

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Helen Singer Kaplan (born Helen Singer February 6, 1929 in Vienna ; died August 17, 1995 in New York City ) was an Austrian - American sex therapist and founder of the first sex medicine clinic in the United States to attend a medical school was connected.

Life

Helen Singer was born in Vienna in 1929. After Austria's annexation to Germany, she emigrated to the United States in 1940, where she received US citizenship in 1947. A few years later, in 1951, she graduated from Syracuse University with a bachelor's degree. She then continued her master's degree in psychology at Columbia University , which she completed in 1952, followed by her doctorate in 1955. Her dissertation dealt with psychosexual disorders in humans. She also graduated from New York Medical College with a degree in medicine. In the early 1970s she also took seminars in psychoanalysis .

In 1964, at New York Medical College, she founded a program for medical professionals with children who could put their offspring under professional supervision in the event of medical emergencies. During the phase of the sexual revolution in the wake of the 1968 movement , she was also called the "Sex Queen" because of her role and position as a pioneer in the field of sex therapy . Singer Kaplan advocated that people should enjoy their sexuality as much as possible and not view it as dirty or morally objectionable. After working with the German psychologist and psychotherapist Hans-Werner Gessmann in 1976 , he introduced her sexual therapeutic approaches in connection with the humanistic psychodrama and hypnosis method he founded at the Bergerhausen Psychotherapeutic Institute in Germany.

For most of her life she was a professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. She has published over 100 scientific articles, including numerous books.

From 1953 to 1968 she was married to the psychiatrist Harold Kaplan. She had two sons and a daughter. Kaplan died of complications from cancer in 1995 at the age of 66. At that point she was married to Charles Lazarus , founder of the Toys “R” Us toy chain .

Fonts

  • Disorders of Sexual Desire. Brunner / Mazel, New York 1979.
  • The Illustrated Manual of Sex Therapy. Quadrangle / New York Times, New York 1975.
  • The New Sex Therapy. Brunner / Mazel, New York 1974.
German translations
  • Inhibitions of lust. Stuttgart 1981.
  • Sex therapy. Stuttgart 1979.

literature

  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 594f.

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personal data
SURNAME Singer chaplain, Helen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American sex therapist
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1995
Place of death New York City , United States