Galit Atlas is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in Manhattan. She is a clinical assistant professor on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis. Galit Atlas teaches and lectures throughout the United States and internationally.

She was the recipient of the Andre’ Francois Research Award and the NADTA Research Award. She has published three books for clinicians and numerous articles and book chapters that focus primarily on gender and sexuality. Her New York Times publication “A Tale of Two Twins” was the winner of a 2016 Gradiva Award.

In her new international bestseller Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients and The Legacy of Trauma (Little, Brown, Spark, 2022) Atlas entwines the stories of her patients, her own stories, and decades of research to help us identify the links between our life struggles and the “emotional inheritance” we all carry.