Dr. Ruth Westheimer Biography

At sixteen, she went to Israel to work for Haganah, as a Zionist activist. She then moved to Paris, where she studied psychology at the Sorbonne, and taught young children.
She immigrated to the US in 1956, where she obtained her Masters degree in Sociology, and her Ph.D. in Education, from Columbia University. She went on to study human sexuality at New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center.

Dr. Ruth Westheimer is now a Psychosexual Therapist who helped pioneer the field of Media Psychology, with her radio program, 'Sexually Speaking'. The program began in September 1980 as a fifteen minute taped show that aired in New York.
Today, 'Sexually Speaking' can be heard across the US and is part of a communications network that distributes Dr. Westheimer's expertise via television, books (she has written four), newspapers, games, home video and computer software.

Dr. Westheimer is a pioneer in spreading what she has labeled "sexual literacy". She has been twice named "College Lecturer of the Year” in the US.

Her television show 'The Dr. Ruth Show', has been syndicated both nationally and internationally. The National Mother's Day Committee has honoured Dr. Ruth as "Mother of the Year".

Dr. Ruth has two children, and resides with her husband in New York City.