Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

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Avner Falk, Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. 250 pp.

The Arab-Israeli conflict is the most intractable international struggle in the world today. With great mastery and scholarship, integrating vast knowledge from many disciplines, Falk delves into the most baffling and relentless conflict of our time. Falk's psychoanalytic theory flows with great ease throughout the text as he skillfully parallels it with historical evidence and documentation. His book is useful for psychotherapists and historians alike and for those attempting to go beyond ordinary historical and political explanations by …