This term we are delighted to offer a variety of courses for clinicians and psychoanalytic students online. Courses will be held on Zoom. All instructions will be in Farsi and all reading materials will be in English. We hope you will find something that interests you!
We are pleased to announce our Spring terms seminars. REGISTRATION FOR Spring term, WILL BEGIN ON February 13 to February 27, 2023 (24 Bahman to 8 Esfand, 1401). For registration in any course, please contact the course instructors.
2023/1402 Spring Seminars:
Psychoanalysis in Times of Social Crisis
Dr. Movahedi
Wednesdays at 18:30 -19:50 Tehran time, beginning March 8 (17 Esfand), and then every other week after Norouz Holidays on April 5 (Farvardin 16, 1402), April 19, May 3, May 17, May 31, June 14, and June 28.
Course Description: Psychoanalysis as a cultural enterprise evolved from social, ideological, and organizational structures that promoted dogmatism and totalitarianism in Europe. The world we live in today is not that different from that time…(MORE)
Continuous Clinical Case Seminar: Listening in the Transference
Dr. Movahedi
Wednesdays 18:30 -19:50 Tehran time, beginning on March 1 (10 Esfand, 1401) and then every other week on March 15, (Norouz Holidays), April 12, April 26, May 10, May 24, June 7, and June 21.
Course Description: This eight-week continuous clinical seminar’s central aim is to study the analytic process through case presentation and discussion in class. This term, we try to pay special attention to listening within the transference…(MORE)
Self-Psychology: Theoretical and Clinical Aspects
Dr. Eftekhar
Tuesdays 15:30-16:50 Tehran time, beginning March 7, (16 Esfand), and then every other week after Norouz Holidays on April 4 (Farvardin 15, 1402), April 18, May 2, May 19, May 30, June 13, and June 27.
Course Description: The focus of this seminar is to present an overview of the post-Freudian theory of self-psychology. The course examines the development of this theory from classical and its relationship to object relations and intersubjective perspectives… (MORE)
Emotional Communication
Dr. Nohesara
Thursdays at 15:30 -16:50 Tehran time beginning on March 9 (18 Esfand, 1401) and then every other week on, (Norouz Holidays), April 6, April 20, May 4, May 18, June 1, June 15, and June 29.
Course Description: Our main task in this seminar will be to learn the use of feelings in psychoanalytic techniques. The course is designed to study emotional communication through…(MORE)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Adolescence III: Case Analysis
Dr. Ganjavi
Thursdays 9:00-10:20 Tehran time beginning on March 2 (11 Esfand, 1401) and then every other week on March 16, (Norouz Holidays), April 13, April 27, May 11, May 25, June 8, and June 22.
Course Description: The fundamental dynamics and issues of adolescence have been covered in the two previous courses. This course will focus primarily on the analysis and discussion of clinical cases. We will concentrate mainly on the book Adolescent Casebook (2022) edited by Novicks, Anna Freud’s students with more than fifty years of experience working with children…(MORE)
Ego and the Mechanism of Defense
Mr. Pouralibaba
Thursdays at 12:00-13:20 Tehran time, beginning March 2 (11 Esfand, 1401) and then every other week on March 16, (Norouz Holidays), April 13, April 27, May 11, May 25, June 8, and June 22.
Course Description: This course offers a preliminary overview of the mechanisms of defense when our ego cannot meet the demands of reality. Defense mechanisms are unconscious coping strategies that reduce anxiety generated by perceived threats from the internal or external world. These mechanisms involve psychological tactics brought into play by the unconscious mind…(MORE)
Psychoanalytic and Cultural Examination of Masculinities through Movies
Dr. Zhaf
Mondays at 18:30 -19:50 Tehran time, beginning February 27 (8 Esfand, 1401) and then every other week on March 13,(Norouz Holidays), April 10 (21 Farvardin, 1402), April 24, May 8, May 22, June 5, and June 19.
Course Description: As Donald Moss mentions in his book, Psychoanalysis and Masculinity: Thirteen Ways of Looking at A Man, images and ideas associated with masculinity are forever in flux. This course addresses the never-ending effort of men to shape themselves into the perceived notion of masculinity. The complexities of male gender identity are examined from several psychoanalytic…(MORE)
Psychoanalysis and Culture
Dr. Rahimi
Mondays at 20:00-21:20 Tehran time, beginning February 27 (8 Esfand, 1401) and then every other week on March 13,(Norouz Holidays), April 10 (21 Farvardin, 1402), April 24, May 8, May 22, June 5, and June 19.
Course Description: Even though psychoanalysis started as a clinical method intended exclusively for the observation, analysis, and treatment of the individual, it was not long before the scope of the psychoanalytic theory went beyond and above the individual psyche to include not only the family and the circle of significant others, but indeed the broader social, political, linguistic, and even historical context…(MORE)
Understanding Psychosis and Autism Through a Lacanian Lens
Dr. Taheri
Tuesdays 18:00-19:20 Tehran time, beginning March 7, (17 Esfand), and then every other week after Norouz Holidays on April 4 (Farvardin 15, 1402), April 18, May 2, May 19, May 30, June 13, and June 27.
Course Description: This course introduces the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan with a focus on his immense contributions to the understanding of psychosis and, through the labor of contemporary theorists…(MORE)
(OPEN TO PUBLIC)
Persepolis Off the Couch
75,000 Toman for each session.
Psychoanalysts Examine Famous Films with Behzad Pouralibaba. Once a Month on Sundays at 20:00-21:20 Tehran Time.
Every month, we will select a film for you to watch and discuss and try to examine it from a psychoanalytic perspective. We will try to understand the unconscious of the film’s writer, director and what they project on fictional characters and subjects. Analyzing the unconscious and desires of the film’s audience is another aim of our monthly webinar. In addition to the course instructor, we will often have other faulty members as a part of our critics for our analysis and interpretation of a movie.
For registration, please email Mr. Pouralibaba: b.pouralibaba@gmail.com
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