Shulamith Kreitler has graduated in psychology and psychiatry at Bern University, Switzerland. She has been a full professor of psychology at Tel Aviv University since 1986, has worked at the universities of Princeton, Harvard, Yale University, Vienna and Buenos Aires. She is a certified clinical psychologist and health psychologist. She has established the psychooncology unit (Ichilov) and the Center for Psychooncology Research (Sheba Medical Center). She has published over 200 articles and 18 scientific books and is preparing a book about psychooncology(Springer).

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She has developed a new approach to meaning, predicting and changing behavior and identifying psychological risk factors for cancer.