Ruthellen Josselson is professor of clinical psychology at The Fielding Graduate University and a psychotherapist in practice.

Work

She was formerly a professor at The

Hebrew University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public university, public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein ...

of Jerusalem and Towson University, a visiting professor at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

and a visiting fellow at Cambridge University. Her research focuses on women's identity and on human relationships. She received the Henry A. Murray Award, the Theodore R. Sarbin Award and the Distinguished Contributions to Qualitative Research Award from the American Psychological Association as well as a

Fulbright Fellowship The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of ...

. She has been active in group relations work for many years, consults to organizations, and lectures and conducts workshops both nationally and internationally. She is co-Director of the Irvin D. Yalom Institute of Psychotherapy. Dr. Josselson was a founder of the Society of Qualitative Inquiry. and is the editor of the APA journal Qualitative Psychology.

Education

She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1972 from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

Books published

Josselson is the author of numerous books, among them: ''Paths to Fulfillment: Women's Search for Meaning and Identity''; ''Playing Pygmalion: How People Create One Another''; ''Revising Herself: The Story of Women's Identity from College to Midlife'' (which received the Delta Kappa Gamma Educators Award); Irvin D. Yalom: ''On Psychotherapy and the Human Condition''; ''The Space Between Us: Exploring the Dimensions of Human Relationships''; and ''Interviewing for Qualitative Research''. She was, for many years, co-editor of the annual, ''The Narrative Study of Lives''.

External links

www.ruthellenjosselson.com

www.amazon.com/Ruthellen-Josselson/e/B001H9TAQ8

http://www.epsilen.com/rjosselson

References

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