«Now, Let me take this opportunity to provide a short summary of the Freudian group of Tehran, where we do not have any official registration with the Iranian government, neither are
we able to offer our students and candidates any sort of certificates or diplomas, as we are not associated with any Iranian University.
We are also not recognized by any International associations officially. So how come we have about 150 members in Tehran and Mashhad, and a continuous and insistence desire for new
members to join?
Maybe it has to do with an internal sense of legitimacy of the group, after all is this not what we say about the position of the psychoanalyst that when all is said and done, it is an internal position one must find within oneself in order to become a psychoanalyst. In short the success of the group is about “Desire” for Psychoanalysis.»http://www.ipa.org.uk/IPA_Docs/2_Homayounpour_Tehran.pdf

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