Uri Hadar is professor of psychology in Tel Aviv University and the Ruppin Academic Center, where he is head of the MA Program in Clinical Geropsychology. He studied for BA and MA in Tel Aviv University and for PhD in the University of London. His fields of research include psychoanalysis, nonverbal communication and the cerebral representation of natural language. In these fields, he engaged in both empirical and theoretical research and has published widely about these issues. His three books discuss psychoanalytic psychotherapy from the vantage point of integrating Lacanian and Relational approaches. Uri Hadar believes that psychoanalysis may offer a valid perspective for understanding social issues that may lay the basis for political involvement. He is a member of an Israeli organization (“Psychoactive: Mental Health Professionals for Human Rights”) that investigates, promotes and practices this view, with special interest in Israeli-Palestinian relations.