Merav Roth, Ph.D

Prof. Merav Roth (PhD) is a clinical psychologist, a training psychoanalyst and an interdisciplinary researcher of psychoanalysis and literature. - A teaching professor and the current founder and future chair of a culture-sensitive academic and clinical center in the University of Haifa. - The former head of the “Psychoanalytic psychotherapy program”; former founder and chair of Melanie Klein’s advanced studies; and former chair of the Interdisciplinary psychoanalytic Doctoral unit – all in the School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. - The scientific editor of various translated books of Klein and her successors into Hebrew: “Melanie Klein – Essential papers II” with J. Durban (Bookworm publishing house, 2013); Klein’s “Psychoanalysis of children” (Bookworm publishing house, 2022); Brenman Pick’s “Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter” (Carmel, 2021). - Roth wrote many psychoanalytic papers and chapters, including on the life and death instincts, on the interdisciplinary interface of psychoanalysis and literature and on trauma and bereavement. - Her first book in Hebrew (Carmel, 2017) was translated into English, titled “A psychoanalytic perspective on reading literature – Reading the reader” (Routledge, 2020). - Her (Hebrew) book “True love as the love of truth” was recently published (Alma publishing house, 2024).