Background

Kreitler was born on July 3, 1938 in Tel-Aviv, Israel; the daughter of Aharon and Luba Elblinger.

Education

Kreitler received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bar Ilan University in 1960. A year later she earned her Master of Arts degree. In 1964, Shulamith was given a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Bern University.

Career

Kreitler began her teaching career at Tel Aviv University in 1962. Since 1986 she has served as a professor of psychology at the same university. In 1995, she established the psychooncology unit at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov), where she worked as its head until 2007. Since 2007 Shulamith has been a head of the Psychooncology Research Center at the Sheba Medical Center. In addition, she has taught at the Nursing Department in hospitals and at the University of Haifa.

Achievements

• Kreitler has developed a new approach to meaning, to predicting and changing behavior and identifying psychological risk factors for cancer. She has published over 200 articles and 18 scientific books.

Works

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  • The Handbook of Chronic Pain

    (The objective of this book is to promote and enable close...)

    2012
  • Psycho-oncology for the Clinician: The Patient Behind the Disease

    (This volume strives to give oncologists and other medical...)

    2019
  • Psychosocial Aspects of Pediatric Oncology

    (This book is a comprehensive text on the all-important ps...)

    2007
  • Cognition and Motivation: Forging an Interdisciplinary Perspective

    (This collection examines the many internal and external f...)

    2012
  • Studies of Grief and Bereavement

    (Psychology of Emotions, Motivations and Actions.)

    2013
  • The Cognitive Foundations of Personality Traits

    (Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy.)

    2013
  • Conceptions of Meaning

    (Perspectives on Cognitive Psychology.)

    2014
  • Systems of Logic and the Construction of Order

    (Consciousness and Human Systems.)

    2011
  • Pediatric Psycho-oncology: Psychosocial Aspects and Clinical Interventions 2012
  • Psychology of the Arts 1972

Connections

On March 27, 1963 Shulamith Kreitler married Hans Kreitler. They have a child.

Father:

Aharon Elblinger

Mother:

Luba Elblinger

Spouse:

Hans Kreitler

He died on January 2, 1993.

child:

Ron Kreitler