Avner Falk - Published Works

Published Works

1985 משה דיין: האיש והאגדה. ביוגרפיה פסיכואנליטית . Jerusalem: Cana. Tel Aviv: Maariv Library.

1987 דוד מלך ישראל: ביוגרפיה פסיכואנליטית של דוד בן-גוריון . Tel Aviv: Tammuz Publishing.

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.

2007 Napoleon Against Himself: A Psychobiography. Charlottesville, Virginia: Pitchstone Publishing.

2008 Antisemitism: A History and Psychoanalysis of Contemporary Hatred. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger.

2008 Islamic Terror: Conscious and Unconscious Motives. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger.

2010 Franks and Saracens: Reality and Fantasy in the Crusades. London: Karnac Books

2010 The Riddle of Barack Obama: A Psychobiography. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger

Articles

1963 Buber and Gandhi. Gandhi Marg, Seventh Year, Fourth Issue, October, pp. 235–247

1964 On Heinrich von Kleist's "Broken Pitcher." Vent, Hebrew University of 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 Rafael Moses et al.) יחידה ערפית לטיפול בנפגעי הלם קרב בשלהי מלחמת יום הכיפורים . Harefuah, Journal of the Israel Medical Association, December 15.

1975-1976 Identity and Name Changes. The Psychoanalytic Review, vol. 62, pp. 647–657

1976 (with Rafael 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 . Contemporary Psychoanalysis, vol. 14, July, pp. 357–387

1979 פרויד והרצל . Ha'ummah, vol. 56, pp. 57–75

1979a לפשר שגעונו של הירשל: סיפור פשוט של ש"י עגנון . Bammah, no. 81-82, pp. 107–111

1982 Freud und Herzl: die Geschichte einer Beziehung in der Phantasie. Zeitgeschichte (Salzburg), vol. 9, pp. 305–337

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 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.

1987 Ben-Gurion: Immigration as Rebirth. Midstream, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 32–34

1987a על הספה: הדרך הארוכה לשינוי עצמי מציאותי . Politica (Israel), no. 14-15, pp. 52–55

1987b מהלר ופרויד: סיפורה של פגישה . Musica (Israel), vol. 6, pp. 30–35

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

1989a Incest and Parricide on the Throne of Judah. The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, vol. 14, pp. 149–165

1991 לעבד את האבל . Davar, March 19

1991a לאומיות כנרקיסיזם קבוצתי הגנתי . Davar, Oct. 10

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 עגנון והפסיכואנליזה . Iton 77, vol. 16, no. 156, pp. 28–39

1993a רוזה כהן ולאה שלוסברג: על יצחק רבין . Politica (Tel Aviv).

1993b The Problem of Mourning in Jewish History. The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, vol. 18, pp. 299–316

1999 מאוסוולד עד עמיר: דיוקן פסיכואנליטי של רוצח פוליטי . Panim, No. 8, Winter 1998-1999, January 1999

2001 De Claude-André Strauss à Claude Vigée: Refléxions d'un ami psychologue. In Mendelson, David & Leinmann, Colette (Eds.) L’Oeil Témoin de la Parole: Rencontre autour de Claude Vigée. Paris: Editions Parole et Silence

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.

2006 Collective Psychological Processes in Anti-Semitism. Jewish Political Studies Review, vol. 18, no. 1-2, pp. 37–55

Book Reviews

1978 Analyzing Freud. Review of From Oedipus to Moses by Marthe Robert. Midstream, vol. 24, no. 10, pp. 70–71

1986 Review of The Immortal Atatürk by Vamik D. Volkan and Norman Itzkowitz. Asian and African Studies, vol. 20, pp. 266–271

1988 Loss and Longing. Review of Freud: A Life for Our Time by Peter Gay. Weekend, The Jerusalem Post Magazine

1992 Old-Hat Freud. Review of Freud and Moses by Emmanuel Rice. Moment, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 67–68

1999 Reviews of Shame and Humiliation: Presidential Decision Making on Vietnam by Blema S. Steinberg (1996) and Richard Nixon: A Psychobiography by Vamik D. Volkan & al. (1997). Political Psychology, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 420–428