Gohar homayounpour biography

          Gohar Homayounpour, PsyD is a psychoanalyst and author.

        1. Gohar Homayounpour was born in Paris to Iranian parents, she was educated in Canada and the United States, she now lives and works in Tehran.
        2. Gohar Homayounpour, was born in Paris to Iranian parents, she was educated in North America (Canada and United States), she now lives and works in Tehran.
        3. Gohar Homayounpour is a psychoanalyst and Gradiva award-winning author.
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          5. Gohar Homayounpour, was born in Paris to Iranian parents, she was educated in North America (Canada and United States), she now lives and works in Tehran..

          Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran

          Author’s Talk – Gohar Homayounpour introduced by M Fakhry Davids

          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.

          Gohar Homayounpour is a practicing psychoanalyst in Tehran.

          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 that resembles–more than a little–a psychoanalytic session.

          Homayounpour recounts the pleasure and pain of returning to her motherland, her pass