Ahmad-Reza Mohammadpour-Yazdi

Ahmad-Reza Mohammadpour-Yazdi received his bachelor’s in psychology and master’s degree training in clinical psychology at the Iran University of Medical Sciences. He earned a second BA in psychoanalytic psychotherapy from the Sigmund Freud University, where he later completed his Ph.D. in psychotherapy science. Additionally, he has started a doctoral program in Social and Cultural Analysis at Concordia University in Montreal. Dr. Yazdi’s research interests are at the intersection of psychoanalysis and social anthropology, on issues such as ideology, superego formation, trauma resulting from immigration and asylum, collective trauma, and eco-psychoanalysis. He also has explored Persian mythology and clinical phenomena within the context of the “Skin Model of Ego Development,” and the social and cultural analysis of conspiracy theories and infodemics within the context of “insecure skin-ego’’ which he himself innovated. His published papers address issues of trauma, his lived experience of immigration, the skin ego, and the psychoanalytic analysis of conspiracy theories in the era of COVID. He has twenty years clinical experience focused on trauma phenomena. In addition, he is a fellow at Parkmore Institute where he is interested to work with students who are doctoral candidates for the DPsa degree and supporting clinically relevant projects across a wide range of phenomena approached psychoanalytically.