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Noam Shpancer

Noam Shpancer is an Israeli-born professor of psychology in the United States and a Hebrew-language novelist.

born 1959The novel The Good PsychologistCo-writing the film A Different StoryTeaching psychology at Otterbein University

Occupation: psychologist, writer, psychotherapist
Education: University of Houston

Noam Shpancer was born in 1959 in Nahshon

Shpancer was born in 1959 on Kibbutz Nahshon. He served in the IDF in the Golani reconnaissance unit. After his service he returned to the kibbutz and worked with kindergarten-age children.

He wrote a regular column for the weekly Al HaMishmar until 1992. In 1985 he moved to the United States to study clinical psychology. He earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Houston and his master's and doctorate in clinical psychology at Purdue University.

He lives in Columbus, Ohio, and is an associate professor at Otterbein University. He publishes professional papers in journals such as American Psychologist. Since 2004 he has written for Jewish newspapers in the United States and won a prize for his opinion pieces.

He has written 2 novels in Hebrew that were published in Israel, and his book The Good Psychologist was translated into English. He wrote the screenplay for the film A Different Story with director Avi Nesher. The film, released in 2018, draws on his daughter's turn to religious observance.