Eli Somer

Eli Somer
Born 1951
Haifa, Israel
Citizenship Israeli
Fields Clinical psychology, trauma and dissociation
Institutions University of Haifa
Doctoral advisor Carolyn M. Tucker

Eli (Eliezer) Somer (Hebrew: אלי זומר‎; born 1951) is an Israeli Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Haifa, School of Social Work.[1] He is the former President of both the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation[2] (ESTD, 2009-2011) and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD, 2005-2006).[3] Somer is the founder and a scientific advisor of TDIL – Trauma and Dissociation Israel, and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Jewish Coalition Against Sexual Abuse.

Biography

Somer was born in Israel, a son of Holocaust survivors. He graduated high school at the Hebrew Gymnasium in Jerusalem in 1969. He served at the IDF in the War of Attrition as a tank crewman, and in the Yom Kippur War as a tank Commander. Somer served for many years as a reservist combat Mental Health Officer at the Medical Corps of the Israel Defense Forces specialising in combat stress reactions.

Somer is currently a peace activist and an advocacy activist for victims of sexual and Child abuse.

Academic and professional life

Somer received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from The University of Haifa in Israel (1976, 1980). He received his PhD at the University of Florida in 1984. Somer’s doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Carolyn M. Tucker was on Spouse Marital Adjustment and Patient Life Engagement as Factors in Dietary Compliance of Chronic Hemodialysis Patients. During his post-doctoral training and work in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1984-1987), Somer was personally supervised by Prof. Erika Fromm on behavioral medicine, dissociation and analytical hypnotherapy.

Somer has published research articles on civilian trauma during war, dissociation and dissociative disorders.

Between 1987 and 2007 he was a Clinical Director of Maytal - Israel Institute for Treatment and Study of Stress. Somer's service at the University of Haifa begun in 1987, when he joined the R.D. Wolfe Centre for the Study of Stress. He has been a faculty member of the University of Haifa School of Social Work since 1990. In 2002 he joined the ISSTD board of directors as International Director and was elected ISSTD's first non-North American president in 2005. Somer was one of ESTD's founding fathers and became its second president in 2005. In 2006, he founded TDIL – Trauma and Dissociation Israel, of which he is scientific advisor. Somer is a Ministry of Health (Israel) certified supervisor in both clinical psychology and hypnosis. He is involved in advocacy for victims of sexual and child abuse, and has had a pivotal role in extending the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse crimes in his country, and also in criminalising therapist-client sex.

Currently, he is a clinical professor of psychology at the University of Haifa School of Social Work. He is also a Clinical Director at Somer Psychotherapy and Psychological Research.

Eli Somer has coined the term "Maladaptive Daydreaming" and is conducting research on this psychological phenomenon.

Honors and awards

Publications

Books

Articles

Sample of Somer's recent scientific publications:

References

  1. ↑ "Eli Somer at Haifa University".
  2. ↑ "ESTD - board".
  3. ↑ "Slander and Betrayal".

External links

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