SmartTalk Women series in Wilmington continues – An Evening with Dr. Ruth
Who isn’t interested in having a conversation with a celebrity sex therapist?
What: SmartTalk Connected Conversations Series with Dr. Ruth Westheimer
Where: The DuPont Theatre | 1007 Market Street, Wilmington, DE 19801
When: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Cost: $50.00 – $75.00
Dr. Ruth Westheimer is a psychosexual therapist who helped to pioneer the field of media psychology with her radio program, Sexually Speaking. It began in September of 1980 as a fifteen minute, taped show that aired Sundays after midnight on WYNY-FM (NBC) in New York. One year later it became a live, one-hour show airing at 10 PM on which Dr. Ruth, as she became known, answered call-in questions from listeners. Soon it became part of a communications network to distribute Dr. Westheimer’ s expertise which has included television, books, newspapers, games, home video, computer software and her own website, www.drruth.com.
Born in Germany in 1928, Dr. Westheimer was sent to a children’s home in Switzerland at the age of ten which became an orphanage for most of the German Jewish students who’d been sent there to escape the Holocaust. At 17 she went to Israel where she fought for that country’s independence as a member of the Haganah, the Jewish freedom fighters. She then moved to Paris where she studied at the Sorbonne and taught kindergarten. She immigrated to the US in 1956 where she obtained her master’s degree in sociology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School of Social Research. In 1970, she received a doctorate of education (EdD.) in the Interdisciplinary Study of the Family from Columbia University Teacher’s College.
She worked for Planned Parenthood for a time and it was that experience that prompted her to further her education in human sexuality by studying under Dr. Helen Singer Kaplan at New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center. She later participated in the program for five years as an Adjunct Associate Professor. She has also taught at Lehman College, Brooklyn College, Adelphi University, Columbia University and West Point.
Currently Dr. Westheimer is an adjunct professor at NYU and an associate fellow of Calhoun College at Yale University. She is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and in addition to having her own private practice, she frequently lectures at universities across the US.
In addition to radio, her television career has spanned both broadcast and cable. Ask Dr. Ruth was syndicated both nationally and internationally by King Features Entertainment so that she became a regular in such places as London and Hong Kong as well as America.
In 1991, she donned the title of executive producer for a documentary on Ethiopian Jews titled Surviving Salvation. Her second documentary, entitled No Missing Link, also received national airing on. Her latest documentary, The Olive and The Tree: The Secret Strength of the Druze was completed in February of 2006.
In print she circles the globe with her column, “Ask Dr. Ruth,”. She is the author of thirty-one books, and counting. There have also been calendars, board games and yes even a computer game!
Dr. Ruth has also done a little acting, One Woman or Two, Dr. Ruth’s House, and Quantum Leap. She’s been featured on TV commercials for Clairol Herbal Essence, Honda, Pepsi, Entenmann’s and many other products. She also narrated two children’s stories, Little Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks and the Three Bears, on a CD entitled Timeless Tales And Music Of Our Time.
Dr. Westheimer has two children, four grandchildren and resides in New York City and she knows how to live in a MAN’s world yet make it her OWN! You won’t believe what she is going to say next!
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