A New Generation of Our Iranian Youth Most Diverse and Most in Need For Support We tend to forget that our young generation has become what we have never seen in our previous ones. A vast majority of our young generation who is 30 years of age or under are extremely smart, intellectual, peaceful, and…
Day: May 5, 2011
Democracy An Integral Part of Our Mental Health
Our basic human rights are defined as the right to live, to grow, and to develop. Besides food and shelter we have the right to feel safe and secure. Our psychological health is the main part of our basic rights as a human beings. However this definition does not match our reality, our Iranian reality.…
Endless Possibilities For a New Immigrant
Over two decades ago, as a newcomer in Sweden, I was trying to register for a Swedish language class. I could appreciate how learning the native language would give me the key for many things. In order to start somewhere, I had to attend a neighborhood community college that was suggested to me. In the…
Psychology For Us Iranians
Psychology is a subsystem within a larger socially, politically and historically constructed reality. This is at least my understanding of psychology. In my mind we need a psychology for us Iranian that enables us comprehend our everyday life, behaviors, thoughts, and emotions. Every culture has their own cultural psychology to define the most significant aspect…
Imposed Culture of Grief
To investigate our Iranian mind we need to recognize some important factors. A general emotional discomfort is what we clinicians see going on among our people from Iran. Why? Well, there are thousands of reasons, to explore one of them we can talk about the prevailing existence of grief in our culture. Grief, sorrow, pain,…