Avi Berman, Ph. D. is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, training analyst and a group analyst. He is a member in Tel- Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and The Israeli Institute of Group Analysis. He is the initiator and co-founder of the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis and its first chairperson. He is the head of group psychotherapy track in Tel Aviv University's psychotherapy program. He is a co-author of "Victimhood, Vengefulness, and the culture of Forgiveness" (Together with Ivan Urlic and Miriam Berger). He is a co-editor of "Sibling Relations and the Horizontal Axis in Theory and Practice". (Routledge, 2022) together with Smadar Ashuach and co-editor of “Tolerance – a concept in crisis” (Routledge, in print) together with Gila Ofer.