Professional Background

Current roles

  • Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst, Private Practice, Seattle

  • Faculty, Seattle Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

  • Clinical Instructor, University of Washington, Seattle

  • Clinical Consultant for Couples Therapy, William Alanson White Institute (CTTEP), New York City

  • Founder and Board Director, Tehran Center for Psychoanalytic Studies

Selected contributions

My academic and psychoanalytic work includes presentations in international conferences, publications, translations, and editorial contributions on the psychoanalytic understanding of group identity in socio-political contexts, addiction, chronic pain, the subjective experience of minorities in the therapeutic encounter, religious extremism, the evolution of technique into relational approaches, and the challenges of institutional development of psychoanalytic thought.

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