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David Morris Schnarch (born 1946 ) is an American couple and sexualtherapeut , clinical psychologist and urologist .

David Schnarch was a professor of urology at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge and is now director of the Marriage & Family Health Center in Evergreen , Colorado. David Schnarch became known to the public through his research in the field of couples and sex therapy and related publications. Schnarch studied the widespread problem of losing people's sexual desire in couples, and in the 1980s he assumed that Bowen's concept of differentiating the self was the starting point for solving the problems of intimacy and sexual desire. His hypothesis was that a low degree of differentiation would inevitably lead to problems with intimacy and desire and that, for this reason, a higher degree of differentiation would be sufficient to solve these problems. Conceived by these considerations, he propagated an allegedly new form of psychotherapy, which differs in principle from classical, bind-based psychotherapies, and called its development "crucible approach" (crucible melting pot, fire test). Critically, however, is that this conception of psychotherapy is anything but new. Already in CG Jung, the concept of differentiation is found in his conception of the " individuation process ".