Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran

Name: Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran
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ISBN: 9780262017923

ISBN-10: 026201792X

ISBN-13: 9780262017923

Edition: 2012

Authors: Gohar Homayounpour, Abbas Kiarostami

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Is psychoanalysis possible in the Islamic Republic of Iran? This is the question that Gohar Homayounpour poses to herself, and to us, at the beginning of this memoir of displacement, nostalgia, love, and pain. Twenty years after leaving her country, Homayounpour, an Iranian, Western-trained psychoanalyst, returns to Tehran to establish a psychoanalytic practice. When an American colleague exclaims, "I do not think that Iranians can free-associate!" Homayounpour responds that in her opinion Iranians do nothing but. Iranian culture, she says, revolves around stories. Why wouldn't Freud's methods work, given Iranians' need to talk? Thus begins a fascinating narrative of interlocking stories…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/31/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.25" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Abbas Kiorastami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker. His most recent film is Certified Copy, starring Juliette Binoche.