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Professional Background
My Ph. D. is from the Sorbonne University
of Paris, one of the most
famous Universities in the world. It was founded in the 13th century and
one can feel the intellectual atmosphere all around. The architecture is
splendid and impressive and learning there is very exciting for many reasons,
the main is one is the gratuity of studies at all levels for all students
(including foreigners). Another is the ambiance of the Latin Quarter, so
named because students who studied there at the beginning studied in Latin.
My Doctorate was in Clinical Psychology and among the many internship experiences, I worked at the Salpetriere hospital were Freud also studied with Charcot. Among the many great teachers I had the privilege to study with was the great Jean Piaget.
In addition to my studies at the Sorbonne I also studied at the "Institut de Psychologie", a more practical and experimentally oriented school in Paris.
After receiving my Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the Sorbonne University in Paris I started working in the Educational Psychology Center of Rishon. I was the director of the clinic, the secretary and the cleaning person. I did all three jobs fairly well and then went to work as Director of the central Educational Psychology in Tel Aviv. There I had a secretary, a cleaning person and even a team of 5 psychologists to work with. Those were some good years and I learned a lot about psychology in the making.
In 1969 I started teaching social psychology at the University. This is what the chairman of the Department of Educational Sciences needed and since I wanted to teach, I took the job. I studied from all the books on Social Psychology I could find and I even prepared a book of readings in SocPsy, translating some good research articles into Hebrew. I was elected President of the Israeli Educational Psychological Association and I transferred to a full time job at Tel Aviv University. In addition to teaching I had a few administration jobs, like Director of the Graduate Program in Counseling and chairman of the Department of Educational Science.
I did teach in some great universities, in the United States, Canada and France. At Tel Aviv university I teach both in the department of Psychology and the School of Education.
