Shlomit C. Schuster

Shlomit C. Schuster
Hebrew: שוסטר שלומית ‎‎
Shlomit Schuster in 2013
Born	(1951-07-19) July 19, 1951 (age 70) Suriname
Died	February 15, 2016(2016-02-15) (aged 64) Israel
Nationality	Israeli
Occupation	Philosophical Counselor

Shlomit C. Schuster (Hebrew: שוסטר שלומית ‎‎; born 19 July 1951 in Suriname and died 15 Feb 2016 in Israel) was an Israeli Philosophical Counselor,^[1] and considered a pioneer in the Philosophical counseling field.^[2] Her first book is considered a source of learning and teaching Philosophical counseling .^[3]

Schuster migrated to Israel in 1976 and started philosophy academic studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

She got to the philosophical practice field following a newspaper article. She trained under the Dutch philosophical counselor Ad Hoogendijk, a colleague of Gerd B. Achenbach. In 1989 she opened the philosophical practice center in Israel, "Center Sophon" in Jerusalem. In 1990 she opened the philosophical First-Aid Line, "Philosophone", for persons with existential problems and ethical challenges. In 2000 she received her Ph.D. degree. Her thesis, conducted by Marcel-Jacques Dubois and Maurice S. Friedman, described the life of central philosophers in order to find ways to help people by their autobiography.^[4]

She was an Editorial board member of the Journal of Radical Psychology,^[5] the International Journal for Philosophical Practice,^[6] and Journal of Humanities Therapy ^[7]

Schuster died in Jerusalem on 15 February 2016, after a serious illness.

Books[]

• Philosophy Practice: An Alternative to Counseling and Psychotherapy (1999), Translated to Dutch (2001), Italian (2006) and Chinese (2007). This book is considered as a source of learning and teaching philosophy practice.^[3]
• The Philosopher's Autobiography: A Qualitative Study (2003)^[4]

References[]

External links[]

• The original site of Shlomit C. Schuster (Last update: July 2015)
• In her memory
• Memoir of National Philosophical Counseling Association
• Facebook Memoir: (in spanish)
• Philosophone, Philosophical First-Aid Line