Prof. Shoulamit Geller
Research Fellow, International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), Reichman University; Associate Professor and Chair of the Clinical Psychology Graduate Program at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel.
Prof. Shulamit Geller, is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Clinical Psychology Graduate Program at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel. She is a supervising clinical psychologist, a member of the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis, a research fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at Reichman University in Herzliya, and maintains a private practice. Her research focuses on the intersection of individual and social dynamics, particularly body image, group psychology and psychology of terror. Following the October 7th attacks, she initiated studies on group protocols for processing collective trauma and led a professional work group examining trauma and societal dynamics in Israel, with findings presented at national and European conferences. At ICT, Prof. Geller contributes to longitudinal studies that aim to characterize international and national right-wing extremist groups.
Prof. Geller earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from Tel Aviv University, Israel, after completing her M.A. in Social and Clinical Psychology (Cum Laude) and B.A. in Psychology (Cum Laude) at the same institution. She served as a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Westminster, London, an Honorary Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
Prof. Geller recent publications include (1) Hanetz-Gamliel, K., Akerman Yehoshuah, Geller, S. (2024). Remote but Together: Online Group Supervision During COVID-19 Pandemic.International Journal of Group Psychotherapy; (2) Geller, S., Van den Brink, G., Akerman, J., Levy, S., Shazar, T. & Goldzweig, G. (2023). Dreams Shared on Social Networks During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Tower of Babel or Noah’s Ark? – A Group-Analytic Perspective. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20, 3534. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043534; (3) Kelly, H.K., Geller, S., Swami, V., Shenkman, G., Levy, S., Ridge, D. (2023). A Relational Investigation of Israeli Gay Fathers’ Experiences of Surrogacy, Early Parenthood, and Mental Health in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic.PLoS ONE; (4) Geller, S., Hanetz-Gamliel, K. & Levy, S. (2022). Online group supervision in graduate psychology training during COVID-19 pandemic.Online Learning, 26(3).; (5) Geller, S., Friedman, R., Levy, S., Akerman, J., Van den Brink, G, Romach, G., Shazar, T. & Goldzweig, G. (2022). The Rough Road: A single case study of Dreamtelling in a group during the COVID-19 pandemic and military conflict.International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127174
