Susan Jeffers (psychologist)

Susan Jeffers (March 3, 1938 – October 27, 2012, 74 years old)[1] was an American psychologist and author of self-help literature.

Susan Jeffers started her academic education at Penn State University, but abandoned her studies when she married her first husband.

In the years following 1960 the family moved to Manhattan, where Jeffers took degrees, followed by a doctorate in psychology, at Hunter College and at Columbia University.

In 1971 Susan Jeffers became executive director of the Floating Hospital in New York.

Susan Jeffers died of cancer of unknown primary origin on October 27, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.