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Dana Amir

Dana Amir is an Israeli poet, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, and a full professor at the University of Haifa.

born 1966Hebrew poetryResearch on language and psychopathologyPsychoanalytic study of traumatic testimony

Born: 10 November 1966, Haifa
Occupation: poet, psychologist, writer, researcher
Education: University of Haifa, University of Haifa Faculty of Social Science

Dana Amir was born in 1966 in Haifa

Dana Amir was born in Haifa in 1966 and grew up there. She attended the Hebrew Reali School. Her grandparents were Dr. Matte Margalit Roll, a gynecologist, and Yitzhak Roll, who founded the Levant Fair.

She earned a B.A. in psychology and philosophy, an M.A. in clinical psychology and a Ph.D. in the philosophy of psychoanalysis, all at the University of Haifa. Her doctoral thesis dealt with the lyrical dimension of the mind.

Amir is a full professor at the University of Haifa, where she founded and heads an interdisciplinary doctoral program in psychoanalysis. She is a training psychoanalyst, and from 2019 to 2024 she was editor-in-chief of Maarag, an Israeli psychoanalysis journal. Her research looks at the link between language and psychopathology, traumatic testimony and the language of the perpetrator.

She has published poetry books, memoirs and academic books in Hebrew and English. Her poems have appeared in French and Spanish anthologies. She is a mother of 2 sons, lives with Michal Ben-Naftali and resides in Haifa.