Ruth K. Westheimer

Dr Ruth K Westheimer broke stigmas for more than forty years, beginning in the 1980s with her nationally syndicated US radio show Sexually Speaking. She authoured or co-authoured forty-six books on many topics, and was named New York’s Ambassador to Loneliness, the first such position in the United States. A beloved therapist known to millions as ‘Dr Ruth’, she died in July 2024.