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Siamak Movahedi, PhD., NCPsyA, is Professor of Psychoanalysis, Training and Supervising Analyst, and the Director of the Institute and the Doctoral Program in the Study of Psychoanalysis, Society & Culture at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis and Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is a graduate of Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis and Washington State University.
Dr. Movahedi is the North America Editor of Psychoanalytic Discourse, and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP), International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) and the American Psychological Association (APA).
He specializes in Psychoanalysis, Social Psychiatry, Social Psychology, Semiotics & Cultural Analysis, Qualitative & Quantitative Methodology, Theory & Clinical Research, Philosophy of Science and his current areas of research are Cross Cultural Study of Intimacy and Marital Relationships , The Relation Between Social Structure and Psychopathology, Cross-Cultural Study of Suicide and Self-Destructive Behavior, Semiotics and Social Psychology of Fashion, Empirical and Textual Analysis of Myths and Folklores, Empirical and Textual Analyses of Dreams, Metalinguistic Analysis of Therapeutic Discourse.
He is the author of numerous papers and chapters in books and major national and international journals in Psychoanalysis, Psychology, and Sociology which have appeared among others in American Imago, American Psychologist, American Sociological Review, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Journal of the American Psychoanalytical Association, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Modern Psychoanalysis, Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, L’Année Psychanalytique Internationale, and Internationale Psychoanalyses Band 9: Moderne Pathologien.
His publications are:
ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
Movahedi, S. {co-authored with McKnight, A} (2019). The Evolution of the Notion of Intimacy in Psychoanalysis and Culture. American Imago (forthcoming).
Movahedi, S. (2019). Sigmund Freud’s Most Famous Psychoanalytic Drama and the Man Who Dreamed and Played the Role of the Wolfman. Psychoanalytic Discourse. 4, (May Issue) 19-29.
Movahedi, S. (2018). Forty Shades of Gray in Iranian Intimacy: Cross Cultural Analysis of Intimacy, Chapter 6 in Kanwal, G. and Akhtar, S. (edits). Intimacy: Clinical, Cultural, Digital and Developmental Perspectives. Routhledge Taylor & Francis.
Movahedi, S. (2018). “Après un Rêve”: Transference of Passion and the Return of the Hidden Ghost of Desire, Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/ Revue canadienne de psychanalyse, 26 (2), 115-137.
Movahedi, S. and Moshtagh, N. (2018). Persian Tales on the Couch: Notes on Folktales as the Mirror of the Contemporary Cultural Struggles with Gender and Sexuality. International Forum of Psychoanalysis, volume 27, Number 1 (March). 1-15.
Movahedi, S. (2017). A False Dichotomy between Science and Hermeneutics, and Observation and Interpretation in the Analysis of Manifest Dreams in Clinical Work. Psychoanalytic Discourse, 3 (February).
Movahedi, S. and Moshtagh, N. (2016). Your Smartphone Is Watching You: Evocative Objects of Influence and Fear of Breakdown. Psychoanalytic Review, 103 (October), 623-648.
Movahedi, S., Homayounpour, G. (2016). Il lettino e il chador. L’Annata Psicoanal. Int., 8:151-172.
Movahedi, S. (2015). Contextualized Language and Transferential Aspects of Context, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, (August) 63: Pp. 641-670
Movahedi, S. and Homayounpour, G (2014). Le divan et le tchador L’Année psychanalytique international. Volume 2014, 2014/1. Pp. 87 à 109.
Movahedi, S. and Homayounpour, G (2014). Die Couch und der Tschador, L’Année Psychanalytique Internationale, and Internationale Psychoanalyse Band 9: Moderne Pathologien, Pp. 89-1114.
Movahedi, S. (2014). The Narcissism of Minor Differences: The Status Anxiety & Disciplinary Intolerance between Sociology and Psychoanalysis. In L Chancer and J. Andrews (Ed.), The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis, Pp. 140-155. London, England: Palgrave Macmillan.
Movahedi, S. (2013). Did You Say Bizarre? Pocketing the Change as a “Post-interpretive Action.” Modern Psychoanalysis, 38, Pp.189-202.
Movahedi, S. and Homayounpour, G. (2013). Fort!/Da! And the Paradox of Women’s Visibility and Invisibility. Psychoanalysis, Monotheism and Morality: The Sigmund Freud Museum Symposia 2009-2011. Wolfgang Muller-Funk, Ingrid Scholz Strasser, and Herman Westrink (eds). Belgium: Leuvan University Press. Pp. 113-133.
Movahedi, S. & Homayounpour, G. (2013). Divan ve Çarşaf. Uluslararasi Psikanaliz Yilligi (Turkish Annual of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis), 11, 185 – 207.http://www.pandora.com.tr/urun/uluslararasi-psikanaliz-yilligi-2013/293633
Movahedi, S. (2012). Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Reported Dreams and the Problem of Double Hermeneutics in Clinical Research. Journal of Research Practice. Volume 8, Issue 2, Article M12 Retrieved from http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/article/view/303/274
Movahedi, S. & Homayounpour, G. (2012). The Couch and The Chador, International Journal of Psychoanalysis.93:1357–1375
Movahedi, S. & Jacobs, G.(2012). “Death in the Service of
Life: Individual and Cultural Projections and Practices.” In
Marcelline Block and Christina Staudt, eds., Unequal Before Death, Pp. 60-75. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Movahedi, S. {co-authored with Gohar Homayounpour} (2012). Transferential Discourse in the Language of the (M)other, Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/ Revue canadienne de psychanalyse, Vol. 20, No. 1, Pp. 114-143.
Movahedi, S. (2010). Death, Fantasy, and Politics of Self-Destruction. Reprinted (by the editor’s invitation) in the Italian journal, I Problemi della Pedagogia. September 2010.
Movahedi, S. (2010). Wall Street Scandals: The Myth of Individual Greed.” (Co-authored with Laura Hansen). Sociological Forum. V. 25, No. 2, Pp. 367-375. September.
Movahedi, S. (2009). What Do Post-Modern Feminists Want From Freud and Psychoanalysis? Modern Psychoanalysis. v. 34, number 2, Pp. 75-83.
Movahedi, S. (2009). Weaponization of the Body and Politicization of Death. The Revista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental, v. 12, Pp. 71-98, March.
Movahedi, S. (2007). Psychoanalysis. Entry in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, ed. George Ritzer. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing,) Pp. 3694-3696.
Movahedi, S. (2007). Death, Fantasy and The Discovery of the Perverse. The Psychology of Death in Fantasy and History has been reprinted in J. Piven (Ed.), Terrorism, Jihad, and Sacred Vengeance. Giessen, GER: Psychosozial-Verlag.
Movahedi, S. (2005). The “Voice” of the Analysand and the “Subject” of Diagnosis, Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Journal of the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society, 41 (No.2): 281-305, 2005.
Death, Fantasy and The Discovery of the Perverse. The Psychology of Death in Fantasy and History, Piven Jerry (editor), Greenwood Praeger, February.
Movahedi, S. (2006). “Narcissism” and “Narcissistic Neurosis” two entries in The Edinburgh International Encyclopedia of Psychoanalysis; General Editor: Ross M. Skelton (Trinity College, Dublin, Edinburgh University Press) Pp. 319-320.
Movahedi, S. (2004). An Interdisciplinary Dialog on Violence: A Commentary, The Journal of Modern Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28.
Movahedi, S. (2003). Quantitative Analysis of Qualitative Clinical Data. Proceeding of the annual meeting of the Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Hawaii, 2003. ISSN # 1539-7211.
Movahedi, S. (2003). Regional Disparities in Romania: Political Participation in a Transitional Society. (Co-authored with Russell Schutt, Denisa Popescu and Ali Pirzadeh) The Discourse of Sociological Practice. Vo. 5, Number 1 2003, Pp.19-26.
Movahedi, S. (1999). “Utopian Pursuit of Death American Imago. 56: Pp.1-26 (number 1).
Movahedi, S. (1998). The Discourse of Time and The Structure of Psychic Reality, Modern Psychoanalysis. 2(23): 197-209.
Movahedi, S. {Co-authored with Arlene Dallalfar} (1999). Women in Multinational Corporations: Old Myths, New Constructions, and some Deconstruction. Organization. 3(4): 541-554.
Movahedi, S. (1996). Metalinguistic Analysis of Therapeutic Discourse, “Journal of The American Psychoanalytic Association, 44: number 3: 837-862.
Movahedi, S. (1996). “On Cause, Teleology and the Question of Drive versus Wish: A Comment on Nigel Mackay’s Refutation of Purposive Explanations,” Modern Psychoanalysis, 21:19-29.
Movahedi, S. (1985). The Social Psychology of Foreign Policy and the Politics of International Images.” Human Affairs 8 {October}: 18 37.
Movahedi, S. (1985). Cultural Preconceptions of Time: Can We Use Operational Time to Meddle in God’s Time? Comparative Studies in Society and History 27 {July}: 385 400.
Movahedi, S. (1985). Are Freudian Slips in Trouble?” Modern Psychoanalysis 10, No. 1, p. 79 88.
Movahedi, S. (1980). Probability, Confirmation and Information of Theories. Pp. 201 261 in Lee Frees (ed.) Theoretical Methods in Sociology, University of Pittsburgh Press.
Movahedi, S. (1999). Drug Addicts and Addiction: Cultural Stereotypes and Clinical Theories. Urban Life: A Journal of Ethnographic Research 7 {April}: 45 66, 1979.
Movahedi, S. (1999). Probability of a Theory or a Hypothesis: Some of the Uses and Misuses of the Concept of Probability. Sociology & Social Research 62 {January}: 43 62. [Co authored with Richard Ogles], 1978.
Movahedi, S. (1999). Role Playing: An Alternative to What? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 3 {2}, 1977.
Movahedi, S. (1976). Prediction and Inference in Criminology.” Criminology: An Interdisciplinary Journal 14 {August}: 177 188. [Co authored with Richard Ogles].
Movahedi, S. (1976). Reaction to the Stanford Prison Experiment: Movahedi and Banuazizi Reply.” Published in Readings in Social Psychology: Contemporary Perspective. Edited by Dennis Krebs. New York: Harper and Row.
Movahedi, S. (1976). Methodological Schizophrenia: A Problem in the Sociology of Science.” International Journal of Contemporary Sociology 13 {January & April}: 79 92.
Movahedi, S. (1976). How Should One Load the Dice? A Response to Warren Dunham, Journal of Health and Social Behavior 17 {September} 312 314.
Movahedi, S. (1975). Loading the Dice in Favor of Madness. “Journal of Health and Social Behavior 16 {June}: 192 197.
Movahedi, S. (1975). Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison: A Methodological Analysis.” American Psychologist 30 {February}: 152 160. [Co authored with Ali Banuazizi].
Movahedi, S. (1975). Role Playing and Its Associated Problems of Inference: Movahedi & Banuazizi Reply.” American Psychologist 30 {October}: 1016 1018.
Movahedi, S. (1973). A Comment on the Distinction between Formal Statements and Empirical Propositions and Its Implication for Some Critiques of Parsons. Sociological Research Symposium, Vol. 1, pp. 10 16, published by Virginia Commonwealth University.
Movahedi, S. (1973). Axiomatic Theory, Informative Value of Propositions and Derivation Rules of Ordinary Language.” American Sociological Review 38: 416 424, [Co authored with Richard Ogles].
BOOK REVIEWS
On The Freud Watch: Public Memoirs by Paul Roazen (2003). Free
Association Book, Modern Psychoanalysis, Vol. 30, No.1, Pp.129-134. The journal came in 2006.
Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities, by Martha Huggins, Mika Haritos-Fatouros and Philip Zimbardo, Journal of the South Eastern Latin Americanist, Volume XLVII, No. 1,2; Pp. 141-145, 2003.
The Contemporary Kleinian of London, Roy Schafer (EDT), International University Press, 1997, pp. 440. Modern Psychoanalysis
Working With Resistance, Martha Stark. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, 1994. 302 pp. Modern Psychoanalysis, Pp. 102-104, 1995.
Melanie Klein, Volume I: First Discoveries And First System, 1919-1932. Jean-Michel Petot. Trans. Christine Trollop. Madison Connecticut: International University Press, 1990. 314 PP, 1991.
Melanie Klein, Volume Ii: The Ego And The Good Object, 1932-1966. Jean-Michel Petot. Trans. Christine Trollop. Madison Connecticut: International University Press, 1991. 282 pp. Modern Psychoanalysis., 1992.
Psychotherapy in a New Key, by Hans Strupp and Jeffrey Binder. Modern Psychoanalysis, Vol. 11, No. one & Two, 1986.
Networks, Exchange and Coercion: The Elementary Theory and Its Application, by David Miller and Bo Anderson. American Journal of Sociology 84 {July}:270 273, 1983.
Reviewer & Critic, The IQ Game: A Methodological Inquiry into the Heredity Environment Controversy by Howard F. Taylor. Author Meets the Critics Session of the Annual Meeting of Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, 1983.
Techniques and Problems of Theory Construction in Sociology,” by Gerald Hage. International Journal of Contemporary Sociology {1 & 2}: 144 145, 1977.
CONFERENCES
Movahedi, S. and Moshtagh, N. (2018). Persian Myths on the Couch. Invited paper
presented to the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. The commentator of their
paper was: Prof. Lía Ricón, psychoanalyst and Prof. of Psychiatry at Buenos Aires
University, Founding member of Myth and Psychoanalysis Commission, Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, November 5.
Movahedi, S. (2018). The Patient’ s Fear of Breakdown when The Analyst goes Mad. XX International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Florence, Italy October 17-19.
Movahedi, S. (2018). On the “Pregnant Moment” in Therapeutic Listing. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Associaion. New York City, February 15.
Siamak Movahedi & Alistair McKnight (2017). The Psychoanalytic Significance of the “Currency of Intimacy” Within The Evolving Cultural Systems of Emotional Exchange. paper presented at The IPA Buenos Aires Congress, in July 25-29.
Movahedi, S. (2016). The Paradox of Being with the Other and Capacity to Be Alone. Keynote presentation at the 2nd International Congress of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychotherapy, Tehran, Iran. November 11.
Movahedi, S. and Moshtagh, N. (2016). Mind, Body, and the Social Construction of Virtual World. Presented at the Annual Meeting of Eastern Sociological Society. Boston, March 17-21.
Movahedi, S. and Piven J. (2016). War, Peace, and Social Conflict: Modalities of Understanding Ideology and Violence. Presented at the Annual Meeting of Eastern Sociological Society. Boston, (March 17-21).
Movahedi, S. and Moshtagh, N. Culture on the Couch: The Past Inside the Present and the Present Haunted by the Past. Invited Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Boston (April 10, 2015).
Movahedi, S. Keynote/Plenary Address, “Après un Rêve”: Transference of Passion and the Co-authorship of the Narratives of Desire. International Congress of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, Tehran, Iran (October 12, 2014).
Movahedi, S. Keynote/Plenary Address, To Act or Not to Act as Therapeutic Sherlock Holmes: Characters in Search of an Author in the Psychoanalytic Situation, Mental Health Research Conference, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran,
(July 3, 2014).
Movahedi, S. Keynote/Plenary Address, Psycho social aspects of organ transplantation, Iranian-American Medical Association, Boston, (February 28, 2014)
Lost and Found in Translation: A Conference on Asian, South-Asian and Middle-Eastern Cultures. Invited speaker at an all-day conference on Culture at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, October 26 2013, New York City.
Contextual Meconnaissance or The Discovery of a Plot in the Wrong Text, Annual Meetings of the American Psychological Association Division 39, Orlando, Florida, August 2012.
Sadism in Therapeutic Relationships, Keynote/Plenary Address, Scientific Lecture Series, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Department of Psychiatry, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, July 21, 2012.
Donald Carveth’s The Immoral Morality Of The Superego: Re-Thinking The Theory of Morality, (Moderator and Discussant) 2012 Lecture Series, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, April 20, 2012.
Fashion & the Construction of Social Body, the Annual Meeting of Eastern Sociological Society, Eastern Sociological Society, New York City, February 25, 2012.
Meeting Dr. Freud in Tehran. Keynote/Plenary Addressed to the American Medical Association Social and Scientific Meeting, Iran American Medical Association, Boson, June 20, 2011.
Wall Street Scandal: The Myth of Individual Greed (Co-authored with Laura Hansen). The Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (August 2009)
Unconscious Re-enactment Through Language.” Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of Eastern Sociological Society in Baltimore, March 19, 2009.
The American Ego Psychology and French Lacanian Psychoanalysis: a Case Study in the Sociology of Knowledge.
Presented at Paul Roazen Group for the History of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, at Harvard University, January 23 2009.
Sex and PSYCHE, A Response to Elizabeth Bruhl-Young’s presentation of Third Wave Feminism & Psychoanalysis, Annual Meeting of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies. New York City, December 6, 2008.
The Couch & The Chador J´adore, (Co-authored with Gohar Homayounpour) presented at III International Congress of Fundamental Psychopathology and the IX Brazilian Congress of Fundamental Psychopathology at the Fluminense Federal University, Niterói, RJ/ Brazil, September 7, 2008.
Organized and presided over a session on Casino Gambling in Massachusetts at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Boston, August 2nd.
The Old Diagnosis of ‘Dangerousness’: Should the Designation of ‘The Enemy Combatant’ become a New Category in DSM-V?” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Boston, August 2 2008.
Dress, Fashion and Psychoanalysis. Presented at the annual meeting of Psyche and Social Conference, July 31, 2008, Boston.
Anxiety of Influence & Intolerance of “Otherness.” Presented at the Annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, New York, February 23, 2008, New York City.
I love you, That’s Why I ignore You: Discussion of Fred Busch’s Paper. Presented at the Scientific Conference of The New England Psychoanalytic Institute, East. January 12, 2008.
Different “Authors” and Different “Voices” in “Interpreted” Dreams. Presented at the VIII International Congress of Fundamental Psychopathology” in Belem, Brazil, September 2006.
The Discourse of Transference-Love or The Discourse of Cultural Subjects: Is There a Difference? (coauthored with Gohar Homayounpour). Presented at the VIII International Congress of Fundamental Psychopathology” in Belem, Brazil, September 2006.
The Cultural Narrative and the Individual Story (coauthored with Miriam Riss), Presented at the annual meeting of Narrative Matters: The Storied Nature of Human Experience held at Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada, May 27, 2006.
Fantasies about the Language of Psychoanalysis (Coauthored with Gohar Homayounpour), presented at the psychoanalysis section of the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association in Washington DC in August 21.
Fundamental violence: Inside the mind of the “anti” terrorist, presented at the International Congress of Fundamental Psychopathology and VII Brazilian Congress of Fundamental Psychopathology to be held at Rio de Janeiro, on 4th to 7th of September, 2004.
A Postmodern Re-thinking of the Sociology of Knowledge, the organizer and the discussant, The Annual Meetings of the Eastern Sociology Society, New York City, February 20, 2004.
How do You Tell What You Dream and How May We Listen to it? Presented at The annual meeting the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 2003.
Quantitative Analysis of Qualitative Clinical Data. Presented at the annual meeting of the Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Hawaii, June 6, 2003.
Social Psychological Correlates’ of Demand for Violent Action In Response to The September Eleven Terrorist Attack (co-authored with Miriam Riss) to be presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, March 2003.
Dreams, Narcissism and Modes of Object Relations: A Quantitative Analysis of the Manifest Content of Dreams. Presented at 22nd annual Spring Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Division 39. New York, April 2002.
The Fate of the Attribution Theory in Light of the September 11 Tragedy: A Chronic Confusion between Cause and Fault (co-authored with Miriam Riss) Presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, March 2002
Social Reality and The Narrative Structure of Dreams. Presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society. Boston, March 2002.
A Choreography of Love And Desire at a Therapeutic Situation, Presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Humanist Sociology, New Port City, 2001
A Sociological Analysis of The Psychoanalytic Process, Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 21 2001, Anaheim, California.
Sociology of Emotion, Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 18 2001, Anaheim, California.
Fear of Influence & Unconscious Dynamics of Prejudice, Presented at the Annual Summer Institute of the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, August 3 2001, Bradleboro, Vermont
Development of NGO in Post Communist Romania, Paper co-authored with Harry Perlstadt, & Eugen Biacan, Michigan State University, and Presented at Babes Bolyai University, Romania, June 2001.
What is it to Which Words and Theories Point in Psychoanalysis: The Demand for Theoretical Conformity & the Structure of the Therapeutic Situation.” Presented at 21st annual Spring Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Division 39, Santa Fe, NM April 25-29, 2001.
Nationalism and the Patterns of Political Action (Co-authored with Russell Schutt) Presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, March 2001, Philadelphia
Perceptual Filters of Violence: The Case of Diallo’s Murder (Co-authored with Miriam Riss) presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, March 2001, Philadelphia.
Regional Disparities in Romania: Political Participation in a Transitional Society (co-authored by Russell Schutt and Denisa Popescu) Presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 2000.
Political Participation After the Fall of Communism in Romania (Co-authored with Russell Schutt) presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, March 2000, Baltimore.
The Social Psychological Correlates of Social Adaptation to Political Change in Romania (Co-authored with Russell Schutt, Ali Pirzaheh and Denisa Popesqu) presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, March 2000, Baltimore.
Social Unconscious. Presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, March 2000, Baltimore.
Psychoanalysis and Sociological Discourse, organizer and discussant, the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, March 2000, Baltimore.
Clinical Diagnosis & The Unconscious Dynamics of the Therapeutic Encounter. (Co-authored with Aleksandra Wagner) presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, August 24, 1999, Boston
Chaired a Session & Directed a Workshop on Joyce McDougal’s Conference on Beyond the Eros, Sponsored by the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, Harvard Science Center, April 28, 1999.
Innovative Graduate Education in the Millennium. Presented as a part of an invited Panel on the Future of Graduate Education in Sociology. To be presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, March 1999.
A Multidimensional Analysis of Attitudes toward Risk (co-authored with Miriam Riss.) To be presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, March 1999.
Rewriting the Third Movement of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto: Movement of Passion Along Various Analytic Lines. Presented at the Annual Cape Cod Summer Institute, The Conference on Rethinking Eros, August 3, 1999, Cape Code.
Diagnosis of Mental Illness and the Emotional Positions of the Participants in the Therapeutic Process. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. October 30, 1998.
Discussant and Moderator, A Passions in Girls and Women: Toward a Bridge Between Critical Relational Theory of Gender and Modern Conflict Theory, Leon Hoffman, M.D., The Forum of the Psychoanalytic Society of new England, East, November 3, 1997.
The Social Construction of The Psychoanalytic Knowledge: The Analytic Situation and The Analytic Process. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Tucson, Arizona, October, 1997.
A Language Proposal as a Postmodernist Methodological Position. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Social Science Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 23-26, 1997.
Invited Commentary on Nigel MacKay’s paper, “The Place of Motivation in Psychoanalysis,” Annual Conference of The Manhattan Center of Modern Psychoanalysis, Fordham University, New York City, 1995.
The Object Relations of the Utopian Pursuit of Death. Presented at the Psychoanalysis Division of The American Psychological Association, Spring Meeting, Los Angeles, 1995.
Meta-Linguistic Analysis of Therapeutic Communication: Flight into a Second Language when the Analyst and Analysand are Multilingual. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada, 1993.
The Sociology of Psychoanalysis: Clinical Symptoms, Theories and Cultural Narratives” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology, Portland, Maine, 1992.
Fifty Minutes of Timeless Journey into the Present Past: An Analysis of History & Time in the Analytic Setting. Presented at the Psychoanalysis Division of The American Psychological Association, Spring Meeting, Philadelphia, 1992.
Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Clinical Narratives.” Presented at the Annual Meetings of Society for the Humanistic Sociology, Ottawa, Canada, 1991.
Women and Multinational Corporations: Some Thought from the Case of US Companies in Iran. Massachusetts Sociological Association, Boston, 1991.
In Defense of Marginality: Social Integration may be Hazardous to Your Mental Health. Paper presented at the annual meeting of The Western Social Science, Association. Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1989.
Psychiatric Community and the Treatment Process.Presented at the annual meeting of The Western Social Science Association, Denver, 1988.
Individual Identity & Cultural Ideology of Life and Death. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Phoenix, Arizona, 1988.
Politicization of Death in War and the Bereavement Reactions. presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, 1987.
Family Dynamics in cross-cultural Perspective. Two presentations made at the meetings of Ethnicity & Psychotherapy Group. Chaired by John Pierce M.D. and Cathy Coleman, PhD., 1987.
Changing Concept of Death & Transcultural Psychiatry,” Presented at Leonard Morse Hospital, Mental Health Forum, 1987.
Social Adaptation & National Character, “presented at Iran Round Tables, Middle East Center, Harvard University, 1987.
Cultural Preconceptions of Time: Can We Use Operational Time to Meddle in God’s Time?” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Association, Boston, 1984.
Politics of International Perception. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Center for Iranian Research and Analysis. Washington, D.C, 1983.
National Images and International Behavior. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Toronto, 1981.
Theoretical and Methodological Analysis of Role Playing in Social Psychology. Invited Keynote Presentation at the Special Meeting of the Iranian Psychological Association, Tehran, 1978.
Cultural Stereotypes of Addicts and Clinical Theories of Addiction. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Association, New York City, 1977.
Conflict and Management of Stress. Presented at the ICMS Stress Management Symposium, Athens, Greece, 1978.
Transformation of Class Structure and the Political Economy of Iran.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Boston, 1979.
Alternative Paths to Modernization: The Case of Iran. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York City, 1980.
Anatomy of Revolution and the Capricious Nature of Justice. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Oklahoma City, 1980.
Experimental Artifact in Criminological Research. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, 1974.
Loading the Dice in Favor of Madness. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Boston, 1974.
Methodological Reductionism and the Domain of Sociology.” Presented at the Round Table discussion of the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City, 1973.
Methodological Schizophrenia: A Problem in the Sociology of Science. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City, 1973.
A Comment on the Distinction between Formal Statements and Empirical Propositions and its Implications for Some Critiques of Parsons.” Presented at the Alpha Kappa Delta Symposium of Sociological Research, Richmond, Virginia, 1973
The Probability of a Theory or a Hypothesis: Some of the Uses and Abuses of the Concept of Probability.” Presented at the Annual Meeting, of the Midwest Sociological Society, Kansas City, 1972.
On the Prediction and Probability of a Single Case.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, Oregon, 1972.
An Analysis of Hans Zetterberg’s Distinction between Ordinary and Theoretical Propositions. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Anaheim, California,1970.
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