Tehran Psychoanalytic Institute as the first psychoanalytic institute in Iran was founded in 2007 by Tooraj Moradi, PhD, a US-graduate psychoanalyst. After its establishments, it faced various very difficult local impediments and it seemed impossible and even dangerous. However, we persisted and survived. Later we succeeded in obtaining European accreditation as well as local recognition. TPI was selected to be site visited as an exemplary institute by the World Health Organization (WHO).

We have now grown to have 15 locally-trained faculty members and more than 160 students.

We train psychologists and physicians in a Four-Year Comprehensive Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (850 hours). We are using some new training techniques aside from the usual tri-partite training:

• Specific Technique Practicums in these areas:

-Listening without explicit and implicit interrupting

-Exploring feelings, meanings and history

-Identifying the main theme and the prevailing feeling in a session

-Following the unconscious derivatives

-empathic immersion and responsiveness

2- One-Way Mirror Observation of Patients in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

3- One-Way Mirror Live Supervision of Students (in addition to their regular supervision)

4- Archive of more than a 1000 films of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Sessions used in classes.

The new Child, Adolescent and Working with Parents Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program is to launch in Fall 2023.

We are planning to start our Core Training in Psychoanalysis Program and very much welcome assistance of analysts in provision of teaching, supervision and personal analysis.

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