Dr. Ruth Westheimer Biography

Ruth Westheimer is a psychosexual therapist who pioneered speaking frankly about sexual matters on radio with her program Sexually Speaking which expanded to a national broadcast and was renamed the “Dr. Ruth Show.” It began as a 15 minute taped show but one year later it became a live one-hour show airing at 10 PM on which Dr. Ruth as she became known answered call-in questions from listeners.
Known as Dr. Ruth Westheimer went on to have several successive TV programs appeared on the cover of People Magazine and has authored or co-authored 46 books. Her latest books are From You to Two Roller Coaster Grandma and Crocodile You're Beautiful!. The subject of a one-woman play Becoming Dr. Ruth and a documentary Ask Dr. Ruth Westheimer teaches at Columbia’s Teachers College and Hunter College and has over 90000 followers on Twitter.
Dr. Westheimer was born in Germany in 1928 was sent to a children's home in Switzerland at the age of ten which became an orphanage for most of the German Jewish students who'd been sent there to escape the Holocaust. At 17 she went to Israel where she fought for that country's independence as a member of the Haganah the Jewish freedom fighters. She then moved to Paris where she studied at the Sorbonne and taught kindergarten. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1956 where she obtained her Masters Degree in Sociology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School of Social Research. In 1970 she received a Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) in the Interdisciplinary Study of the Family from Columbia University Teacher's College.

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