Yoram Yovell is a graduate of the MD-PhD program of the Hebrew University Medical School and the Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science. He was a visiting doctoral student at the laboratory of Prof. Eric Kandel, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, at Columbia University. He completed his residency training in psychiatry at Columbia University and his psychoanalytic training at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
He is co-director of the Institute for the Study of Affective Neuroscience (ISAN) at the University of Haifa, and training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Institute, Jerusalem, where he is on the teaching faculty. He is a founding member of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society and served as editor of its journal, Neuropsychoanalysis. His current areas of research include the pharmacological treatment of suicidality and the neurobiology of memory disturbances following psychological trauma.
Prof. Yovell published two bestselling books about the interface between psychotherapy and the neurosciences, and is the host of an award-winning interview program on Israeli TV where politicians, writers and performing artists talk about the relationship between their biographies and their work. He lives outside Jerusalem and practices psychoanalysis and psychiatry.
Yovell is an invited speaker to numerous academic and commercial conferences, and lectures in English or Hebrew about topics such as positive psychology and the pursuit of happiness, the neurobiology and psychology of love, and the biology of emotions.
Contact us: yovely.efrat@gmail.com
Yoram Yovell MD, PhD - Curriculum Vitae
Place and Date of Birth: Jerusalem, Israel; August 2, 1958
| 1976-1980 | Served as a spotting and reconnaissance officer in the Israel Defense Forces Artillery Corps |
| 1990 | MD Doctor of Medicine, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem |
| 1990 | PhD Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot |
| 1991-1994 | Residency training, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute |
| 1994-present | In private practice in New York City and Jerusalem; psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and psychopharmacology |
| 1992-1997 | Psychoanalytic training at Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research, New York |
| 1995-2000 | Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York |
| 1997-2000 | Teaching faculty, Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research, New York |
| 2001-present | Teaching faculty, Israel Psychoanalytic Institute, Jerusalem |
| 2004-present | Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Haifa |
| 2007-present | Director, Institute for the Study of Affective Neuroscience (ISAN), University of Haifa |
| 2008-present | Host of Sihat Nefesh, an interview program on Israeli TV in which performing artists, writers and directors discuss the links between their life histories and their art; Won the Israeli Academy of Cinema and Television annual award for best interview program, 2009 |
Authored books:
| 2001 | Mind Storm (in Hebrew); also published in German under the name Der Feind in meinem Zimmer, 2004. A case-study based introduction to recent advances in psychotherapy, psychopharmacology and the clinical neurosciences. 416 pages. Keshet, Tel Aviv. |
| 2004 | Is It Love (in Hebrew); also published in German under the name Liebe und andere Krankheiten, 2006. A case-study based review of current psychoanalytic and neurobiological theories of romantic love. 352 pages. Keshet, Tel Aviv. |
Selected papers:
| 1. Yovell, Y. (2000). | From hysteria to posttraumatic stress disorder: Psychoanalysis and the neurobiology of traumatic memories. Neuro-Psychoanalysis 2, 171-181. |
| 2. Yovell, Y., Bannett, Y., & Shalev, A. Y. (2003). | Amnesia for traumatic events among recent survivors: A pilot study. CNS Spectrums 8, 676-685. |
| 3. Yovell, Y. (2003). | Enemy in the consulting room: The impact of terrorism and armed struggle on the course of therapy of Palestinian Arabs with an Israeli Jewish analyst. Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy 20, 157-173. |
| 4. Yovell, Y. (2008). | Is there a drive to love? [with 7 invited commentaries and a response to the commentaries] Neuro-Psychoanalysis 10, 117-188. |
