Avner Falk
Dr Avner Falk is an internationally-known Israeli scholar in the interdisciplinary fields of psychohistory and political psychology. In addition to a long career in clinical psychology and psychotherapy, he has published dozens of articles and ten books in these fields, as well as in psychobiography, psychogeography, the psychoanalysis of literature, and other areas of applied psychoanalysis. His psychobiography of Barack Obama is due to be published in summer 2010.
View the author's own website : https://sites.google.com/site/avner1943/
Franks and Saracens: Reality and Fantasy in the Crusades
This is the first and only book to examine the Crusades from the added viewpoint of psychoanalysis, studying the hidden emotions and fantasies that drove the Crusaders and the Muslims to undertake... (more)