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Golan Shahar

Golan Shahar is an Israeli clinical health psychologist and researcher known for his work on self-criticism and psychopathology.

born 1968Research on self-criticismStress and psychopathology researchThe book Erosion

Born: 27 March 1968, Rishon LeZion
Occupation: psychologist, researcher
Education: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Golan Shahar was born in 1968 in Rishon LeZion

Golan Shahar was born in 1968 in Rishon LeZion and grew up there. He is married to Rachel, a clinical psychologist, and has 2 children.

He earned all his degrees at Ben-Gurion University: a B.A. in behavioral sciences in 1993, an M.A. in clinical psychology in 1997 and a Ph.D. in 1999. He trained clinically at the Shalvata Mental Health Center and at the Yale Child Study Center.

He taught at Bar-Ilan University and then did postdoctoral training at Yale under Sidney Blatt. In 2002 he joined the Yale psychiatry faculty as assistant professor. In 2004 he returned to Ben-Gurion University and became a full professor in 2008.

His research focuses on self-criticism and its role in depression and other disorders. He describes a cycle in which self-critical people create a stressful social environment that deepens their distress. He wrote a book on the subject, published by Oxford University Press, and in 2010 he published a book of poems.