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Shlomit C. Schuster
Shlomit C. Schuster
Hebrew: שוסטר שלומית ‎
	Shlomit Schuster in 2013
Born	19 July 1951; Paramaribo, Suriname
Died	15 February 2016 (aged 64); Jerusalem, Israel
Nationality	Israeli
Occupation	Philosophical counselor

Shlomit C. Schuster (Hebrew: שוסטר שלומית ‎; born 19 July 1951 in Paramaribo, Suriname; died 15 February 2016 in Jerusalem, Israel) was an Israeli philosophical counselor,^[2] considered a pioneer in the field.^[3]^[4]

Schuster migrated to Israel in 1976 and studied philosophy at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She trained under the Dutch philosophical counselor Ad Hoogendijk, a colleague of Gerd B. Achenbach. In 1989, she opened the philosophical counseling Center Sophon Jerusalem. In 1990, she launched the philosophical first-aid line "Philosophone", for persons with existential problems and ethical challenges. In 2000, she received her Ph.D. degree. Her thesis, conducted by Marcel-Jacques Dubois and Maurice S. Friedman, described the life of central philosophers in order to find ways to help people through their autobiography^{[clarification needed]}.^[5]

She was an editorial board member of the Journal of Radical Psychology,^[6] the International Journal for Philosophical Practice,^[7] and the Journal of Humanities Therapy.^[8]

Schuster died in Jerusalem on 15 February 2016, after a serious illness.^[9]

Books

Philosophy Practice: An Alternative to Counseling and Psychotherapy (1999), Translated to Dutch (2001), Italian (2006), and Chinese (2007).^[4]
The Philosopher's Autobiography: A Qualitative Study (2003)^[5]