Israel on the Couch: The Psychology of the Peace Process

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SUNY Press, Jan 9, 2003 - Psychology - 195 pages
By applying a clinical psychologist s insight into the Israeli-Arab conflict, Ofer Grosbard lays the foundation for a new theory and practice that espouses the use of clinical tools to promote relations between countries, religions, political parties, cultures, and different identities.
 

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Contents

The Jewish People
9
The Dynamic of the Peace Process The Peace Process A Business Negotiation or an Emotional Bond?
19
The Peace Process as a Process of Emotional Growth
23
Emotional Resistance to the Peace Process
31
The Whole World Is Against Us
35
Denial of Aggression and Fear and Its Price
44
Is Our Sense of Reality Valid?
52
The Story We Tell Ourselves and the World about Ourselves The National Anthem
63
The Palestinian Refugees
87
A Palestinian State
93
Murderers or Heroes?
113
The Arabs and UsAn Intersubjective Approach Arab Insult
122
Arab Thinking
130
Speaking to Arabs
146
The Nonconventional Threat
157
Postscript
182

Foreign Affairs Syria
67
Lebanon
76

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About the author (2003)

Ofer Grosbard was born in Israel and is a practicing clinical psychologist in the United States. He is the author of A License for Insanity and Arab in His Heart, winner of Book of the Year 2000 by the Hebrew Writers Association.

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