An Israeli Psychohistorian: Avner Falk

Avner Falk was born in Palestine (now Israel) in 1943 and spent his childhood and youth in Tel Aviv. He studied psychology and clinical psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and then went to graduate school in the U.S. and received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1970. He returned to Israel in 1971. From 1971 to 1982, Dr. Falk taught clinical psychology and psychiatry courses at mental health centers and nursing schools affiliated with the Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s he was also Supervising Clinical Psychologist at several mental health centers in Jerusalem. From 1962 to 1995 he served reserve duty as Mental Health Officer in the Medical Corps, Israel Defense Forces, retiring with the rank of Captain.