Avner Falk

Dr. Avner Falk was born in British-mandate Palestine in 1943. He is an internationally-known Israeli scholar in the interdisciplinary fields of psychohistory and political psychology. He has published dozens of articles and eleven books in these fields, as well as in psychobiography, psychogeography, the psychoanalysis of literature, and other fields of applied psychoanalysis. He has also had a long career as a psychotherapist. He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, in 1966 and received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1970. He lives in Jerusalem. His latest book, “Agnon’s Story: A Psychoanalytic Biography of S. Y. Agnon” was published by Brill. His book on Donald Trump and America will be published in 2021.