The world's most famous sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer opens up about surviving the Holocaust, pursuing a career in psychosexual and relationship therapy, becoming an international celebrity and today's hot-button sex-related topics
Westheimer was born in a village near Frankfurt, Germany, in 1928, the only child of a couple who were Orthodox Jews. Asrose to power, they saw the writing on the wall, and, in January 1939, at "the last moment possible," dispatched Westheimer, then 10 to a children's home in Switzerland," she emphasizes. "Once when I was born, and once when they insisted that I had to go with that group of children." She never saw them again.
After the war, Westheimer went to British-controlled Palestine. She joined the Haganah, serving as a sniper — and being wounded in action — during Israel's ultimately successful war for independence. She then moved in 1950 to France, studying and teaching psychology at the University of Paris, before immigrating to the United States in 1956, where she married three times and had two children.
Even during stints as an impoverished single, working mother in New York, she continued to pursue her own education, received an MA in sociology from The New School in 1959 and then an Ed.D degree from Teachers College of Columbia University in 1970. She then spent seven more years procuring a doctorate at Cornell under the tutelage of Dr.Westheimer then launched her own private practice, but it wasn't long before her life and career took an unexpected turn.
With Westheimer now on board, Marmor and White set about getting Westheimer to open up about things she had left out of even her own books — about her introduction to sex and the like. They succeeded. One thing she refused to do in the film, however, was to discuss politics — something she subsequently decided to do in our own conversation.
"I'm very upset when I see children being separated from parents [at the U.S./Mexico border]," she says, without ever naming Pres.
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