Batya Shoshani

Dr. Batya Shoshani, Ph.D, a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University, magna cum laude, is a training and supervising psychoanalyst, and a professor of clinical social work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (retired), with vast experience in teaching and supervision in social work, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

She is a founding member and past chair of the training committee at The Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She has been a senior consultant for public services and has written numerous articles regarding the particular theory and technique of working with perverse patients. Her book, Timeless Grandiosity and Eroticised Contempt: Technical Challenges Posed by Cases of Narcissism and Perversion (2021), co-authored with Michael Shoshani, has been published recently.