Israel on the Couch: The Psychology of the Peace Process

Contents

Contents Foreword by Vamik D. Volkan ix Preface xiii Introduction 1 1 The Jewish People 9 2 The Dynamic of the Peace Process 19 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 3 The Stories We Tell Ourselves, and the World, about Ourselves 63 The National Anthem 63 4 Foreign Affairs 67 Syria 67 Lebanon 76 The Palestinian Refugees 87 A Palestinian State 93 Murderers or Heroes? 113 5 The Arabs and Us—an Intersubjective Approach 122 Arab Insult 122 Arab Thinking 130 Speaking to Arabs 146 vii viii Israel on the Couch • 6 The Nonconventional Threat 157 Postscript 182 Index 187 ...