Orly Shoshani is a PhD candidate in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy in the Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics track at the Bar-Ilan University. She is a member of the Israel Association for Self-Psychology and the Study of Subjectivity, a member of the pedagogy committee of the Post Graduate Self Psychology Psychotherapy Track at the Tel Aviv University and a member in the educational committee of IAPSP. Orly practices psychotherapy in the city of Tel Aviv.