BIRTH, CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH
1943 Born in Palestine (now Israel)
1943-1960 Childhood, youth, and education in Tel Aviv
1960 Graduated cum laude from Tel Aviv's Aleph Municipal High School
HIGHER EDUCATION
1960-1965 Undergraduate study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Majors: Mathematics, Psychology. B.Soc.Sc. degree
1965-1966 Graduate study in clinical psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
1966-1970 Graduate study in clinical psychology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Ph.D. degree
1972-1973 Postdoctoral seminar in Family Psychotherapy, School of Social Work, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1966-1968 Scholar and Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis
1968-1969 Fellow, Department of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis
1976-1979 Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry (Clinical Psychology), Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem
1987 Resident Scholar, Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio (Como), Italy
GUEST LECTURES
1976 Boston Psychoanalytic Society, Canadian Psychoanalytic Society (Montreal), Los Angeles Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology
1980 Sigmund Freud Society, Vienna
1981 Faculty Seminar, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1982 Faculty Seminar, Departments of History and Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheba; Tavistock Institute (London)
1983 Faculty Seminar, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan; Faculty Seminar, Theoretical Psychology Department, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
1984 International Colloquium on the History and Future of the University, Universität Wien, Vienna; Medical Faculty, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Medical Faculty, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels
1985 Evangelical Social Academy, Friedewald Castle, Hesse, Germany; Society for the Investigation of Social Systems, Bonn, Germany
1985-2004 Beth Agnon, Jerusalem
1986 Theological School of the Athenaem of St. Anselm in Rome, Jerusalem Campus, Beth Joseph, Dormition Abbey, Jerusalem
1987-1994 Shorashim Center for Jewish Studies, Jerusalem
1988 Harry S. Truman Institute Research Institute for the Advanvement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Pardessiya Mental Health Center, Nathanya; Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, Jerusalem Campus
1989 Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction, University of Virginia: Psychoanalytic Seminar, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute; University of California at Irvine; Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society
1990-1996 Martin Buber Center for Adult Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1990-1998 B'nai B'rith International, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv lodges
1995-1997 Teachers Association for the Advancement of Education, Jerusalem
1998 Center for Asian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Biography Series, University of Haifa; Association Démocratique des Français d'Israël, Tel Aviv
1999 Conference on the work of Claude Vigée, Tel Aviv University
2005 Round Room Forum, The Harry S. Truman Institute Research Institute for the Advanvement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2005 Center for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India
2005 Goethe Institute, Jerusalem
2008 Conference on the Crusaders and the Muslims, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2009 Theological School of the Athenaem of St. Anselm in Rome, Jerusalem Campus, Beth Joseph, Dormition Abbey, Jerusalem
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
1966 Junior Psychologist, Jerusalem Psychiatric Hostel and Half-Way House, Jerusalem
1966-1967 Practicum Trainee in Clinical Psychology, Child Guidance Clinic, Washington University in St. Louis
1967-1968 Intern in Clinical Psychology, St. Louis State Hospital and Missouri Institute of Psychiatry, St. Louis, Missouri
1968-1969 Intern in Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Jewish Hospital of St. Louis
1970-1971 Staff Psychologist, Child Guidance Clinic, City of St. Louis
1971-1972 Clinical Psychologist, Outpatient Services, Talbiyeh Mental Health Center, Jerusalem
1972-1982 Supervising Clinical Psychologist, Sarah Herzog Mental Health Center, Jerusalem
1973-1975 Supervising Clinical Psychologist, Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center, Jerusalem
1975-1983 Supervising Clinical Psychologist, Etanim Mental Health Center, Jerusalem
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1971-1982 Taught clinical psychology and psychiatry courses to psychiatric residents, graduate students and interns in clinical psychology, medical students, social work students, and nursing students at mental health centers and nursing schools affiliated with the Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem
1988-1989 Taught course on the psychoanalytic aspects of Jewish history at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, Jerusalem
INDEPENDENT ACTIVITIES
1971 to 1995 Private practice of psychotherapy
1971 - Independent scholarship
PROFESSIONAL DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES
1970 Certified Psychologist, Missouri Psychological Association
1971 Certified Supervisor in Psychotherapy and Psychodiagnostics, Clinical Division, Israel Psychological Association
1979 Registered Psychologist, Israel Ministry of Health
1980 Registered Specialist in Clinical Psychology and Supervisor in Psychotherapy and Psychodiagnostics, Israel Ministry of Health
MEMBERSHIPS IN LEARNED AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
1971-1997 Member, Israel Psychological Association, including Clinical Division
1978-1995 Member, Israel Association for Psychotherapy
1983-present Member of the International Society of Political Psychology
1983-present Member, Group for the Use of Psychology in History, American Historical Association
1997-2007 Fellow, International Napoleonic Society
MILITARY SERVICE
1960-1962 Academic Reserve, Israel Defense Forces
1962-1995 Reserve duty, Mental Health Officer, Medical Corps, Israel Defense Forces
1983 Officers Training Course, Medical Corps, Israel Defense Forces
Retired rank: Captain
ELECTED AND APPOINTED OFFICES
1965 Israeli delegate to the International Student Festival, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
1966 Israeli delegate to Mois de l'Amitié, La Réole (Gironde), France
1967-1968 Chairman, St. Louis Chapter, Israeli Student Organization in the U.S.A. and Canada
1975-1976 Member, National Committee, Clinical Division, Israel Psychological Association
1986-1989 Member, Editorial Board, Political Psychology
1989-1995 Member, Board of Editors, The Psychoanalytic Study of Society
PAPERS DELIVERED AT INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS
1975 International Conference on Psychological Stress and Adjustment in Times of War and Peace (Tel Aviv)
1976 International Forum on Adolescence (Jerusalem)
1979 International Congress of Psychosomatic Medicine (Jerusalem)
1983 International Society of Political Psychology (Oxford)
1984 International Society of Political Psychology (Toronto)
1986 International Society of Political Psychology (Amsterdam)
1989 International Society of Political Psychology (Tel Aviv)
1994 International Society of Political Psychology (Santiago de Compostela)
1997 International Society of Political Psychology (Krakow)
1998 Jerusalem in the Eschatological Thought of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Jerusalem)
1999 International Society of Political Psychology (Amsterdam)
2002 International Society of Political Psychology (Berlin)
2005 International Conference on Love, Goethe Institute (Jerusalem)
2005 International Workshop on Living Together in Asia Cities, Center for the Study of Developing Societies (New Delhi)
MEDIA EXPERIENCE
Interviewed by many major local, national and international mass communications media on various issues of politics and history, from 1985 to the present. Books reviewed favorably in numerous mass-communications media, intellectual magazines and scholarly journals.
