Avner Falk
Template:Linkless-date Avner Falk (1943- ) is an Israeli clinical psychologist, political psychologist and psychohistorian, known for his psychoanalytic studies of Jewish and Israeli leaders, Jewish history and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1960-1966) and at Washington University in St. Louis (1966-1970). His book Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2004) won the Outstanding Academic Title award from the American Library Association's Choice magazine. His publications include the following:
Books
1985 Moshe Dayan, haIsh vehaAgadah: Biographia Psychoanalytit [Moshe Dayan, the Man and the Myth: a Psychoanalytic Biography].Jerusalem: Cana. Tel Aviv: Maariv Library (Hebrew)
1987 David Melech Yisrael: Biographia Psychoanalytit shel David Ben-Gurion [David King of Israel: a Psychoanalytic Biography of David Ben-Gurion]. Tel Aviv: Tammuz (Hebrew).
1993 Herzl, King of the Jews: a Psychoanalytic Biography of Theodor Herzl. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America
1996 A Psychoanalytic History of the Jews. Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. Cranbury, New Jersey & London: Associated University Presses
2004 Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press.
2006 Napoleon Bonaparte: A Psychobiography. Charlottesville, Virginia: Pitchstone Publishing (forthcoming)
Articles
1963 Buber and Gandhi. Gandhi Marg, Seventh Year, Fourth Issue, October, pp. 235-247
1964 On Heinrich von Kleist's "Broken Pitcher." Vent (Jerusalem)
1964a Clues to Suicide: Psychiatrists Discuss Israeli Aspects. The Jerusalem Post.
1971 An Israeli Legal-Psychiatric Dilemma. Journal of Forensic Medicine, vol. 18, pp. 39-46
1974 Border Symbolism. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, vol. 43, pp. 650-660. Reprinted (1989) in Stein. H.F. & Niederland, W.G. (Eds.) Maps from the Mind: Readings in Psychogeography. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press
1974a (with R. Moses et al.) Yekhida Orpit Letipul Benifgaey Helem Krav Beshilhey Milkhemet Yom haKippurim [A Rear Unit for the Treatment of Combat Reactions in the Wake of the Yom Kippur War]. HaRefuah, Journal of the Israel Medical Association, December 15 (Hebrew)
1975-1976 Identity and Name Changes. The Psychoanalytic Review, vol. 62, pp. 647-657
1976 (with R. Moses et al.) A Rear Unit for the Treatment of Combat Reactions in the Wake of the Yom Kippur War. Psychiatry, vol. 39, pp. 153-162
1977 Freud and Herzl. Midstream, vol. 23, no. 1 (January), pp. 3-24
1978 Freud and Herzl [expanded version]. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, vol. 14, July, pp. 357-387
1979 Freud veHerzl. HaUmmah, vol. 56, pp. 57-75 (Hebrew).
1979a Lepesher shigono shel Hirschl: Sippur Pashut shel Shay Agnon [on the Meaning of Hirschl's Madness: A Simple Tale by S.J. Agnon]. Bammah, no. 81-82, pp. 107-111 (Hebrew)
1982 Freud und Herzl: die Geschichte einer Beziehung in der Phantasie. Zeitgeschichte (Austria), vol. 9, pp. 305-337 (German)
1982a The Messiah and the Qelippoth: on the Mental Illness of Sabbatai Sevi. Journal of Psychology and Judaism, vol. 7, pp. 5-29
1982b Eichmann, Rohan and Cohen: Psychiatric Justice in Israel. Medicine and Law, vol. 1, pp. 191-198
1982c The Role of Guilt Feelings in War Neurosis. In Milgram, Norman Noah A. (Ed.) Stress and Anxiety, vol. 8, pp. 163-169. Washington: Hemisphere
1983 Border Symbolism Revisited. International Review of Psycho-Analysis, vol. 10, pp. 215-220. Reprinted in Stein. H. F. & Niederland, W. G. (Eds. 1989) Maps from the Mind: Readings in Psychogeography. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press
1983a Moshe Dayan: the Infantile Roots of Political Action. The Journal of Psychohistory, vol. 11, pp. 271-288
1984 Moshe Dayan: Narcissism in Politics. The Jerusalem Quarterly, vol. 30, pp. 113-124
1985 Aspects of Political Psychobiography. Political Psychology, vol. 6, pp. 605-619
1986 Der Kampf zwischen der Psychoanalyse und den Universitäten. In Pircher, Wolfgang (Ed.) Vernunft als Institution? Geschichte und Zukunft der Universität, pp. 125-134. Vienna: Österreichische Hochschülerschaft (German)
1987 Ben-Gurion: Immigration as Rebirth. Midstream, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 32-34
1987a Al hasapa: haderech haaruka ledimuy atsmi metsiuti [On the Couch: the Long Road to a Realistic Self-Image]. Politica (Israel), no. 14-15, pp. 52-55 (Hebrew)
1987b Mahler uFreud: sippura shel pgisha [Mahler and Freud: the Story of an Encounter]. Musica (Israel), vol. 6, pp. 30-35 (Hebrew)
1987c The Meaning of Jerusalem: a Psychohistorical Inquiry. The Psychohistory Review, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 99-113. Expanded version in Stein. H. F. & Niederland, W. G. (Eds. 1989) Maps from the Mind: Readings in Psychogeography. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press
1989 Aspectos psicoanalíticos del conflicto árabe-israelí. Diálogo (Jerusalem, Israel), vol. 19, pp. 3, 6-13, 31 (Spanish)
1989a Incest and Parricide on the Throne of Judah. The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, vol. 14, pp. 149-165
1991 Leabed et haevel [Working Through the Mourning]. Davar, March 19 (Hebrew)
1991a Leumiut kenarkissism kvutsati haganati [Nationalism as Defensive Group Narcissism]. Davar, Oct. 10 (Hebrew)
1991b Why Are the Serbs and Croats Killing Each Other? The Jerusalem Post, Dec. 6
1992 Unconscious Aspects of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, vol. 17, pp. 213-247
1993 Agnon vehapsychoanalyza [Agnon and Psychoanalysis]. Iton 77, vol. 16, no. 156, pp. 28-39 (Hebrew)
1993a Rosa Cohen veLeah Schlossberg [on Yitzhak Rabin]. Politica (Israel) (Hebrew)
1993b The Problem of Mourning in Jewish History. The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, vol. 18, pp. 299-316
1999 MeOswald ad Amir: dyokan psychoanalyti shel rotse'akh politi [From Oswald to Amir: Psychoanalytic Portrait of a Political Assassin]. Panim, No. 8, Winter 1998-1999, January (Hebrew)
2001 De Claude-André Strauss à Claude Vigée: Refléxions d'un ami psychologue. In Mendelson, D. & Leinmann, C. (Eds.) L'Œil Témoin de la Parole: Rencontre autour de Claude Vigée. Paris: Editions Parole et Silence (French)
2001a Political Assassination and Personality Disorder: The Cases of Lee Harvey Oswald and Yigal Amir. Mind and Human Interaction, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 2-34
2001b Osama bin Laden and America: A Psychobiographical Study. Mind and Human Interaction, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 161-172
2004 Terres promises: le regard d'un psychanalyste. Perspectives: Revue de l'Université Hébraïque de Jérusalem, No. 11, pp.199-207 (French)
2006 Collective Psychological Processes in Anti-Semitism. Jewish Political Studies Review, vol. 18, no. 1-2, pp. 37-55.