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.

Foreword by Vamik D. Volkan

Preface

Introduction

1. The Jewish People

2. The Dynamic of the Peace Process

The Peace Process: A Business Negotiation or an Emotional Bond?
The Peace Process as a Process of Emotional Growth
Emotional Resistance to the Peace Process
The Whole World Is Against Us
Denial of Aggression and Fear, and Its Price
Is Our Sense of Reality Valid?

3. The Stories We Tell Ourselves, and the World, about Ourselves

The National Anthem

4. Foreign Affairs

Syria
Lebanon
The Palestinian Refugees
A Palestinian State
Murderers or Heroes?

5. The Arabs and Us¿an Intersubjective Approach

Arab Insult
Arab Thinking
Speaking to Arabs

6. The Nonconventional Threat

Postscript

Index