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Selected Books:
C. Strenger (2011) Israel: Einführung in ein schwieriges Land Frankfurt: Jüdischer Verlag bei Suhrkamp.
C. Strenger (2011), The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-first Century. New York: Palgrave-Mcmillan.
Hebrew Translation, Tel Aviv: Kinneret-Zmorah-Bitan. (March 2010)
Italian Translation, Rome: ETAS. (September 2011)
Portuguese Translation, Lisbon: Grupo Leya (April 2012)
Korean Translation, Seoul, Mi Sun Kwon. (May 2012)
French Translation, Paris: Editions Belfont. (Fall 2013)
C. Strenger 2004, The Designed Self. London: Routledge.
C. Strenger (2002), The Quest for Voice in Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Madison, CT: International Universities Press.
C. Strenger (1998), Individuality, the Impossible Project. Madison, CT: International Universities Press1998. Paperback Edition: New York: Other Press, 2002
C. Strenger (1991), Between Hermeneutics and Science: An Essay on the Epistemology of Psychoanalysis. Madison, CT: International Universities Press.
Selected Papers
C. Strenger, The New Cosmopolitans: Challenges and Discontents. Psychoanalytic Psychology. In Press
C. Strenger, Psychoanalysis, Science and Human Nature. Psychoanalytic Dialogues. In Press
C. Strenger, Knowledge-Nation Israel: A New Unifying Vision. Azure. Shalem Publications. Winter 2010, 35-57
C. Strenger, After the Age of Omnipotence: Towards an Interdisciplinary Leadership Philosophy. Effective Executive. Hyderabad: ICFAI University Press. July 2009 Issue, 58-63.
C. Strenger, Sosein: Active Self-Acceptance in Midlife, Journal of Humanistic Psychology., Vol. 49, No. 1, 46-65
C. Strenger and A. Ruttenberg, The existential necessity of midlife change. Harvard Business Review. February 2008, pp 82-90.
C. Strenger, Freud’s Forgotten Evolutionary Program. Psychoanalytic Psychology Volume 23(2) May 2006, pp. 420-429
C. Strenger and J. Burak, The Leonardo Effect. Why Entrepreneurs need to become their Own Fathers International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. July 2005
C. Strenger, Of Potholes and Bends: A Meditation on Psychoanalysis and Motorcycle Riding. Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 21, No 4,2004, 638-644.
C. Strenger, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews in Israel: The Reflection of Historical and Social Reality in Therapeutic Process. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. November 2004.
C. Strenger, Nobrow: Identity Formation in a Fatherless Generation. 2004 Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol. 21, No. 4,2004 499–515
C. Strenger, The Bobo’s Dilemma. Psychotherapeutic Reflections on a Contemporary Myth. American Journal of Psychotherapy. Vol 57, 2003, 252-269
C. Strenger, The Self as Perpetual Experiment: Psychodynamic Comments on Some Aspects of Contemporary Urban Culture. Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol. 30, no 3,2003, 425-440.
C. Strenger, The Classic and the Romantic Vision in Psychoanalysis. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 70, 1989 (pp 593-610).
Carlo Strenger, Curriculum Vitae
Current Academic Position: Chair, Clinical Graduate Pogram , Dept. of Psychology, Tel Aviv University
Affiliations and Functions:
Terrorism Panel, World Federation of Scientists
Seminar for Existential Psychoanalysis (Daseinsanalytisches Seminar) Zurich
Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna, Scientific Board
Center for Terrorism Studies, John Jay College, CUNY, Senior Research Fellow
Consulting Editor, International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Research
Courses Taught:
Psychodynamics of the Middle Eastern Conflict
Is the West Losing the War of ideas?
Existential Psychotherapy
Historical Foundations of Social Science
Ethics in Clinical Psychology
Education / Training:
1978-1981: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, B.A.
1982-1985: Hebrew University Jerusalem: MA Clinical Psychology.
1984-1988: Hadassah Hospital; Student Counseling Services HUJ, Intern, Clinical Psychology.
1985-1989: Hebrew University Jerusalem, Ph.D., Philosophy / Psychology
Positions, Academic, Professional, Clinical:
1981-1983: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tutor
1983-1985: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Teaching Assistant
1985-1989: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Junior Lecturer.
1988-present: Private Practice. Existential Psychoanalysis; Consulting
1990-1996: Israel Management Center: Scientific Director, Leadership Development Seminars
1993: Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. Member.
1990-1999: Tel Aviv University: Adjunct Professor
1999-204: Tel Aviv University: Senior Lecturer
2004: Tel Aviv University: Associate Professor
2004 ff: World Federation of Scientists. Member of the Permanent Monitoring Panel on Terrorism.
2005 ff: Tel Aviv University, Dept. of Psychology, Chair, Clinical Graduate Program.
Institute for Existential Psychoanalysis, Zurich, Member.
2010: Sigmund Freud Foundation. Member of Scientific Board.
SELECTED LIST OF INVITED INTERNATIONAL LECTURES LAST 8 YEARS
2012
UN Alliance of Civilisations Summer School, Coimbra. ‘The Fear of Insignificance”
Annual Conference APA Division 39: Invited Keynote Speaker, ‘The Global Creative Class: Challenges and Discontent’
ISPA University, Lisbon, Invited Lecture “The Fear of Insignificance”
Berlin, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Symposium on Israel, Einführung in ein schwieriges Land by Carlo Strenger
2011
Dept of Psychiatry, Basel University: The Culture of ‘Just-do-it’ and its Discontents
German Psychoanalytic Association: Intersubjectivity
2010
Annual Winter Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Society: Psychological Challenges to Israeli Society of Israel-Palestine Peace
Dept. of Psychiatry, Stanford University: Active Self-Acceptance in Midlife
Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna: The Culture of ‘Just-do-it’ and its Discontents
2009
Annual conference APA Division 39, San Antonio, Texas: Identity and Trauma in the Global Age
Conference of the Israel Psychotherapy Association: Sosein: Psychotherapy in the Shadow of Death
Conference of the Israel Union of Psychologists: Identity and Globalization
2008
Psychoanalytic Institute Zurich, Conference on The Designed Self
2007
Annual Conference of American Psychoanalytic Association, NYC: The Psychology of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Division 39 of the APA, Toronto: The Psychology of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
World Federation of Scientists, Erice, Monitoring Panel on Terrorism
2006
Annual Conference of American Psychoanalytic Association, NYC: The dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
World Federation of Scientists, Erice, Monitoring Panel on Terrorism
Annual Self Psychology Conference, Chicago: Self-Cohesion in a Global Society
2005
Annual Conference of the American Psychoanalytic Association: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Israeli-Paelestinian Conflict.
World Federation of Scientists Monitoring Panel on Terrorism
William Alanson White Institute: The Difficult Patient of Our Times
Prejudice Conference Salt Lake City: Prejudice in Israeli Politics
2004
Annual Conference of the American Psychoanalytic Association: The Scientific Status of Psychoanalysis.
Panel: The Social Face of Shame and Humiliation.
2002
Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis: The Structure of Individuality and Psychoanalytic Mentoring.
Chicago Psychoanalytic Society: The Self as Perpetual Experiment




