Sheila Namir, PhD is a psychologist and psychoanalyst. Her research was on psychosocial oncology, life-threatening illnesses, risk-taking in relationships and work, preverbal trauma, and social support, coping strategies and stress in people with AIDS. She was an associate professor at California School of Psychology (CSPP Los Angeles), a training and supervising analyst at Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis – L.A., Senior Faculty at Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute (SCPI) and Assistant Clinical Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine.

She received her bachelor’s degree at Tel Aviv University in English and American Literature, a Master’s degree in Community/Clinical Psychology at California State University, Northridge, a PhD at University of California, Berkeley, a PhD at Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, and a PsyD at the Insitute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

Dr. Namir has received teaching and other awards from National Insitute of Mental Health, CSPP, SCPI, Los Angeles Society of Clinical Psychologists, and Los Angeles County Psychological Association. She taught writing, psychology and psychoanalysis at graduate schools and psychoanalytic institutes from 1976 to 2018.  She has over twenty publications in peer-reviewed journals of her research and about feminist psychoanalysis, war and PTSD. She also volunteers to provide group and individual services to women with cancer.

Sheila was born in Chicago, moved with her family to Israel as an adolescent, was married to and divorced from Alan Rubin (deceased 2018), married to Helene Moglen (deceased 2018) and Rabbi Malka Drucker, to whom she is currently married. She has five stepsons and seven step-grandchildren.