[Matths] Falk

Avner Falk is an internationally-known scholar in psychohistory and political psychology. He studied clinical psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1960-1966) and at Washington University in St. Louis (1966-1970). After returning to Israel in 1971 he worked for three decades as a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in Jerusalem. He has published ten scholarly books, including psychoanalytic studies of Jewish history, the Arab-Israeli conflict, antisemitism, Islamic terror and...See more

Avner Falk is an internationally-known scholar in psychohistory and political psychology. He studied clinical psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1960-1966) and at Washington University in St. Louis (1966-1970). After returning to Israel in 1971 he worked for three decades as a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in Jerusalem. He has published ten scholarly books, including psychoanalytic studies of Jewish history, the Arab-Israeli conflict, antisemitism, Islamic terror and the Crusades, as well as psychoanalytic biographies of Moshe Dayan, David Ben-Gurion, Theodor Herzl, Napoleon Bonaparte and Barack Obama. His book Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict won an award from Choice magazine. See less