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 GrowthEmotional Resistance to the Peace ProcessThe Whole World Is Against UsDenial of Aggression and Fear, and Its PriceIs Our Sense of Reality Valid? 3. The Stories We Tell Ourselves, and the World, about Ourselves The National Anthem 4. Foreign Affairs SyriaLebanonThe Palestinian RefugeesA Palestinian StateMurderers or Heroes? 5. The Arabs and Us—an Intersubjective Approach Arab InsultArab ThinkingSpeaking to Arabs 6. The Nonconventional Threat Postscript Index