Tuesday, 16 December 2014

Dear Mr.Miller,

It would be a great honor to write you once more about what has been done by Dr.Kadivar and I know I am writing not just for you -as I am sure you are fully aware- but also for those who have more than 150 members in their association, those who learnt to be successful through the shortest time by holding congresses and inviting foreign guests to look unique, important and resourceful. These are what everyone who lives in a developing country – where there is severe lack of awareness – needs to be shown in order to trust.
I start with my experience during those days as a new member attending the Freudian association sections. I remember some ex-members of Freudian association and Dr.Kadivar’s students took some course materials and never returned it and everyone was reminding it as a big regret. At the Freudian association everything was under a restricted discipline and full transparency. All members were training to set a new method of communicating in order to not let any miss understanding strike the solidarity and aims of the association. No one could rest on his/her achievements and slow the acceleration in implementation. It was a lot of pressure on both Dr.Kadivar as a head and members and it took a long time to provide the “statue” which is easily accessible for everyone on the Freudian association website.
Now, the time passed and I see those ex-members and students are making money from the stolen course materials and continue with adding what they would like to add and ruin Dr.Kadivar and members achievements .It is additional burden on Dr.Kadivar and the Freudian association members to not let the robbers take advantage of what they believe they know about Freud and Psychoanalysis. Now, I see although the Freudian association members are not “150 persons”, they know how to work together strongly. They are so strong to work against many years abuse when there was no preserver of Freud, Lacan and Psychoanalysis achievements. When there was no Freudian association of Iran.

Sincerely Yours,
Sepideh Sahar M.Mirzaei Zarandi
Member of Freudian Association

Dear Mr. Miller,
I would like to take this opportunity and add some other points regarding the “Pivot of Sanati- Homayounpoor” that provides a variety of misleading issues in “psychoanalysis” in Iran and gain a lot out of Iran.
1- Sanati is such a trickster that in past 31 years has been telling that he is a psychiatrist and has a fellowship in psychotherapy. But it is just the beginning: based on these false degrees he claimed that he is a “psychoanalyst”. And it is just after disclosure of “Freudian Association” that people are paying a little attention to it, while the in charge people who say something, are just denying the fact and supporting him.
2- Since then, many people came to Q & A part of our website and said different things:
– You are disrespecting an old painstaking person.
– We know it but let’s forget about it and continue with lessons (of Dr. Kadivar) on your website.
– This place is just a place for cheap discussions, backbiting and disgracing others while there are more important issues in the world.
– Why don’t you publish any lesson in French from Dr. Kadivar?
– We know that he is not a holder of psychiatric degree but what’s the use of revealing this fact? There are several people who have done the same and this one won’t be the last.
3- Some people were named “psychoanalysts” by Sanati himself and analyzing (!) clients as Sanati does, or they are on the other side of the pivot; they are followers of Homayounpoor or her patients and etc. So for the sake of their trade (mental trade) and business, they have to keep being quiet but our responsibility is different, as the president of our association says: “…We are an NGO that has come (for it) that anywhere we think (if) an issue in this country was in another form would be better, (we) would do that. [1]
4-They start with denying his false degree and end with denying the fact that he is not a psychoanalyst and abusing people by this title; as this title is very tempting in Iran not only for psychotherapists but also for patients:
– People in our country think that the university degree in psyche-related fields definitely leads one to be a “psychoanalyst”. No training is talked about.
– In Iran when you tell somebody I studied psychiatry, psychology or psychotherapy they say: “so you are a psychoanalyst.”
– When you say I have a problem in my life or whatever, they say: “You should go to a psychoanalyst.” And who describes the definition of psychoanalyst?
– It looks like a market of psychoanalyst and everyone is trying to be more famous and wealthier and in this mixture, this is the aim of psychoanalysis that is being hurt first. (Such as what Freud mentions in the article: “wild psychoanalysis”- 1910)
– Here anything that has the part “psych” is taken the same as “psychoanalysis” and this is not between common people, even (or better to say firstly) between university educated persons in such fields: they easily and with no limitation pretend that they are psychoanalysts, that they can interpret people’s dreams and what they give to their patients is a mixture of what university has given to them along with their own misunderstandings.
5- The problem gets worse when even the people who are in charge say so: the vice- chancellor of Education of Ministry of Health of Iran said that: “Psychoanalytic course is a part of specialty and fellowship programs of psychiatry.” [2]
Here are some points:
– This is said from Ministry of Health, a section of government that is supposed to be able to differentiate differences between fields that their names start with “psyche”.
– This is the Deputy Minister of “Education” who said it, who is in charge of changing courses plans.
– He has reduced psychoanalysis to just a “course”.
– This is psychiatry which is being fed to be bigger and bigger. Why then? At what cost?
You can see how happy and shocked we were hearing: “… Ministry of Health and members of parliament of Belgium recognized the being special of the discipline of psychoanalysis.” [3]
6- People in Iran know it well that if you want to be a mystic (in Persian: A’ref) or pass the steps in such way, you should have a guide who has passed this long and difficult path himself to become a guide. People know it for this case, but when it comes to psychoanalysis they forget about the longitude of the way and the efforts one should make. I wonder if it is because of the effects of wild psychoanalysis or something else.
7- The idea that by going to a “psychoanalyst” you’ll become a “psychoanalyst” is what the “Pivot of Sanati- Homayounpoor” is developing and publicizing; “So how come we have about 150 members in Tehran and Mashhad, and a continuous and insistence desire for new members to join?” [4] and continued ““Desire” for Psychoanalysis” but we see “greed [5] for new members not for a real “psychoanalysis”” .Only after 20 years effort of Dr. Kadivar, the president of 2 associations; “Association of Communication with WAP” and “Freudian Association” (since 2007) are there only 4 students of Dr. Kadivar who are allowed to do the preliminary “psychoanalysis”, just in her office and nowhere else, while Homayounpoor says that her group has more than 150 members (and most of them are analysts!), just in 7 years?! Whereas she is an about 35 year old “young woman” (as she refers to herself in The Paradox Called Iran) [6] and wasn’t here continuously for 7 years?! Unbelievable! This is the difference between the real “psychoanalysis” and “wild psychoanalysis”.
No one asks the possibility of it! What is the difference between this “Freudian Association” and “Freudian Group of Tehran”. (Even their name is stolen from Freudian Association).
Freudian association is a registered NGO (non-governmental organization). 7 years ago, regarding the establishment of an NGO, Dr. Kadivar told us that “… psychoanalysis should pass among the law…” [7] While Homayounpoor says: ” 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” and continued “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.”
Such a big gap! Homayounpoor looks at the words and say them but these words are not coming from her inside.
8- For their so-called first congress they gathered people from Mashhad [8] and brought them to Tehran for “psychoanalysis” week of Iran (they called it to October 11-17, 2014). They began with the first congress (Sanati was the Congress President and Co-Chair of Scientific Committee) then to “Geographies of Psychoanalysis/Encounters Between Cultures” (by Presidency of Homayounpoor).
They spent about 60 million Tomans for the first congress from public money. The costs of the other one were paid by Homayounpoor, except for the place of congress which was a governmental place so again from public money. This is when in Freud museum she said that “the Iranian government, called it the enemy of state-psychoanalysis- which I think they are right (people laughing aloud) and I totally agree.” [9]
This association should struggle on, in 2 sides at the same time: one with development of wild psychoanalysis and another one informing people about what is happening and making them sensitive. (And we, members of Freudian association, except our president, are people who have not yet finished our psychoanalysis, so it makes this struggle even more complicated)
9- The guests of IPA are so whimsical; they don’t ask what the reason is for such a big party. Or they don’t think that it is an investment for Homayounpoor? Spend this much money to receive what? And how could this “young woman” talk about this many followers? Are IPA members so inexperienced that accept whatever Homayounpoor says?!
And we know that the poster of this congress was published nowhere in Iran, while it had a Persian version at IPA website [10]. The first public announcement was in their first congress. What are they doing then?
10- Maybe people who cut of the microphone on us while talking in the first congress, pretended not to hear our voice, threatened us and attacked us, were included in “150 members” of that group.
I remembered a question: why didn’t they report about us to police? They could call the police: ” some people are in our congress and asking something aloud and don’t let us have the closing ceremony”. They knew that we were right. They knew that we would repeat our question in presence of police that: “Dr. Sanati! Where is faculty of psychiatrists of England University? (Where he claimed that he received his degree from)” Based on this first lie, he made the second lie: “being psychoanalyst” (although they have nothing to do with each other) and now he has to prove them both.
Some of these 150 people are those who came out of the congress saloon (Geographies of Psychoanalysis) like a huge flood to inhibit us from attending the congress, pushed us and called us names. At that time we were about 9 and they were about 20 or more!
Such a great support! From 2 heads of “Pivot of Sanati- Homayounpoor”
But honestly, no matter how much I count, I can’t reach this “150” that she mentioned!
This is years that you know about the number and names of people register in classes of Dr. Kadivar (it is told to us when we register for the first time) but about this group (let me emphasis: a group not a registered non- governmental organization) you can find no information about, nowhere on the net. And this is what she says in that congress: “We do not have any official registration with the Iranian government… So how come we have about 150 members in Tehran and Mashhad, and a continuous and insistence desire for new members to join?” She talks about ” desire for new members to join” while Dr. Kadivar talks about “…desire to psychoanalyst, then desire to unconscious and word…” [11]
The name of their group is said by Homayounpoor or when somebody wants to talk about her: “…She trains and supervises the psychoanalysts of the Freudian Group of Tehran and is Professor of Psychology at Shahid Besheti University Tehran.” [12](She was a professor in Shahid Beheshti University Tehran, just for one semester, but is still accrediting herself by name of that university. Just like the place of first congress they mentioned wrongly in the first email they sent to you.)
11- This is strange that Homayounpoor wrote a book ” Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran” (September 2012) while she has lived in Iran not continuously just for about 4 or 5 years (at that time) and stranger thing is that a movie director has written the foreword on her book (Abbas Kiarostami) not a “psychoanalyst”, this director was the one who mentioned to be the spokesman of opening ceremony for Geographies of Psychoanalysis. He didn’t come but an actor appeared instead.
12- Ghourkhane chi who was referred to as Scientific Committee of Geographies of Psychoanalysis, was managing director of our association in 2008 and was expelled from association in 2008 and after a while we found that in the publication of psychology (for Razi Hospital) not only has he misused the lessons of Dr. Kadivar [13] but also introduced 5 of analysts of Iran (!) in this order:1- Homayounpoor, 2- Dr. Kadivar, 5- Sanati . He was analyzed by Dr. Kadivar for about 2 years and half but now for the sake of greed and other things everything was changed easily.
You have been in the middle of the problems they made for Dr. Kadivar in 2013. “Pivot of Sanati- Homayounpoor” wanted to eliminate her, physically, let alone the things that are not seen by eye, such as her efforts, her lessons, real analysis in the end and appropriate it to their benefit. They deceit the real analysis from people who come to this “door” [14] with difficulty.
While writing these lines, I can’t help thinking “If Dr. Kadivar hadn’t been here, what would have I been doing now?”In the end let me express how grateful I am for writing to you one more time.
Yours faithfully
Member of Freudian association
Soode Rakhsha1- Remarks of Dr. Kadivar in the 5th meeting of the board of “Association of Communication with WAP” in 6.10.2007
2- http://Freudianassociation.org/%d8%a8%d8%b0%d9%84-%d9%88-%d8%a8%d8%ae%d8%b4%d8%b4-%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%86-%d9%88%d8%b2%db%8c%d8%b1-%d8%a8%d9%87%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%b4%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d8%b2-%da%a9%db%8c%d8%b3%d9%87-%d8%ae%d9%84%db%8c/
3- http://Freudianassociation.org/%d8%af%d8%b1-%d9%be%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%84%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a8%d9%84%da%98%db%8c%da%a9-%d8%b1%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%86%da%a9%d8%a7%d9%88%db%8c-%d8%a8%d9%87-%d8%b9%d9%86%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%af%db%8c%d8%b3/
4- From article of Homayounpoor in Geographies_conferenceshttp://www.ipa.org.uk/en/IPA_World/Geographies_conferences.aspx
5- Taken from opinion of Ms. Rahele A. on 8.12.2014 in the website of association
6- Presented at the International Congress Geografie della Psicoanalisi, Pavia, 6 October 2012
http://www.ipa.org.uk/IPA_Docs/Gohar%20%20Homayounpour%20IPAWEB%20(1).pdf
7- Postscript of Dr. Kadivar on minute of meeting of the 20th meeting of the board of “Association of Communication with WAP” in 9.3. 2008
8- http://psychodynamic.blogfa.com/post/4
9-http://www.podcast.de/episode/211546338/Doing%2BPsychoanalysis%2Bin%2BTehran/
10-http://www.ipa.org.uk/en/Culture/Geographies_of_Psychoanalysis/Conferences/en/IPA_World/Geographies_conferences.aspx?hkey=3ca8d8dd-d029-4242-86f7-242c4b10c9ad
11- Lacan School, psychoanalysis in 21st century. 1st publication. page 75
12- http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/doing-psychoanalysis-tehran-0
13- http://freudianassociation.org/%d8%a7%db%8c%d9%86-%d9%87%d9%85-%db%8c%da%a9-%d9%86%d9%85%d9%88%d9%86%d9%87-%d8%a7%d8%b2-%d8%b3%d8%b1%d9%82%d8%aa-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%85%db%8c-%d8%a7%d8%af%d8%a8%db%8c-%da%a9%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%b4%d9%86/
14- Referred to a remark by Dr. Kadivarhttp://freudianassociation.org/%d8%b1%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%86%da%a9%d8%a7%d9%88%db%8c-%d8%af%d8%b1-%da%98%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%a7-%d9%88-%d8%b1%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%86%da%a9%d8%a7%d9%88%db%8c-%d8%af%d8%b1-%d9%be%d9%87%d9%86%d8%a7/

Dear Mr Miller
I have to explain more about psychoanalysis in Iran. Unfortunately, in Iran there is not any difference between psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis because some psychologists and psychiatrists want to mix up these scope of science with each other in order to earn more money and more fame. In Iran psychiatrists and psychologists without any training in psychoanalysis introduce him/herself as psychoanalyst. Organizer of first psychoanalysis congress which held in October in Iran, was Iranian scientific association of psychiatrists. We ask ourselves what is relation between Iranian scientific association of psychiatrists and psychoanalysis?! Why psychiatrists allow themselves to hold first psychoanalysis congress?! Psychologists and psychiatrists try to pre-empt psychoanalysis. The only reason that cause them to call themselves as psychoanalyst, is visiting clients in scope of psyche. We as Freudian association try to introduce psychoanalysis as a science that is different from psychology and psychiatry. These psychiatrists and psychologists who call themselves psychoanalyst, are supported by some universities and some principals for example vice chancellor of health ministry, Dr Ziaee . Dr Ziaee said in 3 months ago: “psychoanalysis is part of psychiatric courses in specialty and fellowship of psychiatry”. Dr ziaee ‘s speech was told for defending from fellowship of psychotherapy for psychiatrists. Psychiatrists by Dr Sanati ‘s leadership tried to develop fellowship of psychoanalysis for psychiatrists in Tehran university of Medical sciences but Ministry of health did not accept this fellowship, then psychiatrists by leadership of Dr Sanati tried to develop fellowship of psychotherapy. Dr Sanati is a liar person who does not have any degree in psychiatry. Near 30 years he has introduced himself as a psychiatrist. Freudian association detected that Dr Sanati does not have any degree. Also he has cliamed that he has fellowship of psychotherapy but he does not have any degree in psychotherapy. He introduce himself as a psychoanalyst because of being psychiatrist and psychotherapist. Unfortunately, ministry of health accepted fellowship of psychotherapy while Dr Sanati does not have any diploma in psychiatry and does not have any degree in psychotherapy. Dr Sanati and his friends try to teach psychoanalysis in fellowship of psychotherapy!!! They try to mix psychoanalysis with psychiatry and psychotherapy.
Unfortunately, we are back from development of psychoanalysis in the world. We struggle here for primary rules such as for becoming psychoanalyst, you have to be analyzed by a real psychoanalyst. Or being psychiatrist, psychologist and psychotherapist in not reason for being psychoanalyst.Sincerely yours
Zahra Noee
Member of Freudian association

Dear Mr Miller
I have to explain more about Mrs Homayounpour who is mentioned in Roxane’s email to you. Mrs Homayounour is one between a lot of persons who introduce him/herself as psychoanalyst in Iran. She has Psyd degree (not Phd degree) in psychoanalysis from a school with very low grade which is not even approved by IPA.
http://www.bgsp.edu/
This school has received rating of 15 between 15 training school and university.
http://www.studentsreview.com/alumni.php3?SH=BGSP&ST=MA
She invented Telephone psychoanalysis !!! and Skype (internet) psychoanalysis !!! She founded a group named Freudian group of Tehran. She claims that this group has 150 members from 7 years ago until now!!! Also these members analyze people by telephone . We have to call her, founder of Telephone psychoanalysis in Iran Instead of founder of Freudian group of Tehran! We say to ourselves how she could analyze 150 persons in 7 years?! We speak about psychoanalysis not cooking! But for her psychoanalysis is like cooking!
In one of her speech in Freud Museum in London (21 March 2013), she said Dr Kadivar had some mental health difficulty and French psychoanalysts like Jacques-Alain Miller tried to make this event as public and political but it is not good for psychoanalysis in Iran!!! In this speech, she herself said Islamic Republic of Iran called psychoanalysis as enemy and I agree with them!
You see who try to make psychoanalysis in Iran, as political?!
http://www.podcast.de/episode/211546338/Doing%2BPsychoanalysis%2Bin%2BTehran/
She tried for Dr kadiavr’s hospitalization in Iran, We know that her trainees and her friends in Hospital tried to maintain Dr Kadivar in hospital. One of her main friends is Rasul Ghorkhanechi who has been fired from our association. After getting fired, he has held psychoanalysis classes by texts of Freudian association like Dr Kadivar’s texts. We sued him and he was condemned from court because of plagiarism.
These people who are liar, introduce themselves as psychoanalyst in Iran. Also as I said before, we face with a lot of psychologists and psychiatrists and psychotherapist who introduce themselves as psychoanalysts. None of them are not trained and are not analyzed by real Psychoanalyst. They try to introduce psychoanalysis as an approach in mental health treatment in Psychiatry and psychology. They do not differentiate between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. They say if we are psychotherapist, then we also are psychoanalyst !!!Sincerely yours
Zahra Noee
Member of Freudian association

Dear Mr. Miller
I am honored to have the opportunity to write you again. I would like you to know parts of difficulties about psychoanalysis in Iran.Here, deputy minister of health says: “psychoanalysis is a part of psychiatry”1 therefore, Health Department is responsible for it! In addition, the head of the Psychology and Counseling Organization say:” psychoanalysis is a form of psychotherapies”2 and as a result Psychology and Counseling Organization is the guardian of psychoanalysis! Therefore, here, almost every one holding a degree in psychiatry or psychology is supposed to be allowed to practice psychoanalysis!Here, a general practitioner, Dr.Sanati, has been practicing as a psychiatrist in one of the oldest psychiatric hospital, Roozbeh, in Iran. He has inaccurately described himself as a psychoanalyst and a representative of psychoanalysis and visited patients in his private office.The above-mentioned general practitioner, Dr.Sanati, holds a congress in the name of PSYCHOANALYSIS, with assistance of Iranian Psychiatry Association. In that congress the associate principle of the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences says:” this is my pleasure to be with the best psychoanalysts of Iran.”! While Dr. Kadivar is the only psychoanalyst in Iran!Here, when the Freudian Association objects that the mentioned general practitioner, Dr.Sanati, is not a psychoanalyst, the head of Roozbeh hospital and Iranian Psychiatry Association threaten Freudian Association with Legal complaint!Here, people are not aware of the difference between a psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and a psychologist. Moreover, there is a group of experts who recognize this difference and are not going to let people know about the difference since they gain benefit from this ignorance.They intend to eliminate Dr. Kadivar and Freudian Association so that they can take advantage of psychoanalysis the same as before and we are here to protect psychoanalysis.Yours sincerely
Member of Freudian Association of Iran
Mahin Nasir1-http://isna.ir/fa/news/93061709910/%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86-%D9%88%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B1-%D8%A8%D9%87%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%AA-%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B2-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%85%DB%8C
2-http://isna.ir/fa/news/93022716752/%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%87-%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D9%87%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%AD%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%87-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C

Dear Dr.Miller,
Have you ever been in Iran? How do you think about Iran? I envisage you have never been here and because of your relation with Dr. Mitra Kadivar you are so optimist, fortunately. I don’t like to negate your point of view about here, I just want to give you some information to indicate Iranian concepts about psychoanalysis. Actually, I am educated in clinical psychology (MA), I was in Europe and I have a comparative point of view about living in Iran and there. So, let me to explain about psychoanalysis concepts and Freud position in Iran.
I remember that one day Dr. Mitra Kadivar told us: “the dominant discourse in Iran universities is different from other places”. She continued that instead of the world current discourse, the Hysteric discourse is dominant here. I could not understand the exact meaning of these words yet; but I can say that you may find unbelievable issues in academic societies here, which many of them made obstacles against of science development. You are living in Europe, the meaning of concepts like rule, religion, science, and education in my home land is different from yours’. As my experiences, the lignite of rule obeying and academic education is dominant here. But, it is not as equal as anarchy or complete disorder. It is lawlessness in some way, which is mixed by optional interpretations from the rules or even law. You may ask who made such interpretations? The answer is: everybody who has no sense of moral responsibility. It is not important to have an academic high ranking or not, or having official work status/degree or not. Just, the main supporters have to be in their background. You will ask: who are supporters? The answer is: Every perfunctory organization or every cursory powerful body in official position. Moreover, the religion believers with under enough education about psychology or psychoanalytic knowledge can fall into these charlatans trap. The “wild psychoanalysts” attribute their own lampooning propaganda to the Freud/Lacan and because of religious atmosphere in Iran society, such things arise hard reactions that can be an obstacle against of psychoanalytic science. You may think that it is ridiculous! If there were true, how could Dr. Kadivar stablish Freudian association there? For the answer I just mention a term of Dr. Kadivar which I remember: “we have to stablish our association exactly through the way of law/rule”. And, not through the optional interpretations from the rule/law.
In two past letters, I mentioned about “wild psychoanalysts” like Mohamad Sanati, Gohar Homaionpour, Roxane Irani or Esmat Torkghashghaei, and so on. This term (wild psychoanalysts) is the best descriptive attribution for what they are doing now. As they say, being normal with being educated in psychiatry or psychology is enough condition for being psychoanalyst. No matter, if someone with such background never has been under psychoanalytic training or even never studied in official international authority in psychoanalysis. Ridiculously, such persons can study in the Iran universities and they can attempt to psychological therapies in the private offices or mental hospitals (poor that patients in such asylums). These swindlers named their own claptraps as a psychoanalytic approach; take possession of Dr. Kadivar achievements and our Freudian association efforts with no shame; and present them as their own jobs to the others. In Iran situation, they can translate psychoanalytic or Freudian/Lacanian texts with no responding; or even any knowledge about technical words. Not only they are oppressing to psychoanalytic texts to misuse, but also they stole articles which were introduced and translated by our association. And, they pretend them as their own efforts result!! Unfortunately, I could not find any label better than “wild psychoanalysts”, for these charlatanism.
Yours sincerely; Soodeh SahraeiA member of Freudian association

Dear Mr. Miller,
It was my duty to write you again about the situation of Psychoanalysis and Freudian Association in Iran!
Here every person who studied Psychotherapy, Psychology or Psychiatry can call her/himself Psychoanalyst! There is no rule to stop them “yet”. These psychoanalysts, analyze their patients by phone or Skype! They could be everywhere, I mean psychoanalyst here in Tehran and the analyzer in another city!! Or they held congress with Public funds with the name of psychoanalysis; and in that congress, Mr. Horst Kaechele asked: was Freud a Freudian? And he answered: No. Then the audience laughed!
These are just two samples of their activities.
The Deputy Minister of Health doesn’t know the different between psychoanalysis and other psyche sciences! You can guess when the managers don’t know anything; many many of people don’t know either! And these psychoanalysts (like Mr. Sanati and Ms. Homayounpoor) do whatever they like!
With best regards,
A member of Freudian Association
Masoumeh Rakhsha

Dear Mr. Miller
As a member of Freudian association, I am honored to write you again about these two emails which ‘someone’ has sent you.
It seems that we- you in France and us in Iran- live in two different worlds as one of the articles in our site says: ‘A third world country is a third world country’. Some things happen here that seem not to be possible to happen in other places of the world. Let me explain:
– In our country it is a false but common idea that if someone is psychiatrist or psychologist, he/she can automatically be a psychoanalyst! It may be too strange to you but it is really so. Sanati depends on this common idea when he claims to be an analyst. People like Sanati try to encourage this idea to prevent society of knowing about real training in psychoanalysis. Vice-chancellor for education (ministry of health) recently said in an interview: ‘Psychoanalysis course is a part of specialty and fellowship in psychiatry’! You know, as Dr. Kadivar said more than 8 years ago even educated people know nothing about real psychoanalysis. Sanati for 30 years has claimed that he has fellowship of psychotherapy and based on it he approved himself as an analyst, and not just an analyst but also ‘a training analyst’ as he trained! a large body of ‘analysts’ in past 30 years which make our country very proud of being number one – besides air pollution – in the number of ‘wild psychoanalysts’ (as Freud said more than 100 years ago) we have which really deserves to be registered in Guinness! We even heard that a known person involved in the ‘case of Dr. Kadivar’ showed his ‘card’ to someone as a document of being an analyst trained by Mohammad Sanati!
– When association of psychiatrists (Iranian IPA!!!) gained a fellowship in psychotherapy from the Ministry of Health and Hygiene, they immediately hold the ‘1st congress of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy in Iran’ even before the students have the opportunity to sit in the first session of the classes! Why they were so in hurry?
– Gohar Homayounpour came to Iran around 6 years ago, she claimed in the congress of ‘Geographies of Psychoanalysis’ that she has trained ‘150’ analysts in Freudian Group of Tehran! You see? No one ask him/herself that how it can be possible? When you know that Dr. Kadivar has been working in Iran for more than 20 years and there are just ‘4’ students and analysands of her who are permitted to work under supervision of Dr. Kadivar in Africa Psychoanalytic Center, you cannot help your astonishment! Just compare numbers: 4 versus 150! This is what we call ‘Wild Psychoanalysis’. Many people (audience) who attended the two congresses hold by Sanati and Homayounpour were introduced as ‘analysts’ to Iranian society by Sanati and Homayounpour. As you can see this is all the matter of greed! As someone unrelated to Freudian Association told in Facebook: They all have occupied many courses in universities. This is their Mafia.
– More over Freudian Association is the only registered organization for psychoanalysis in Iran while Freudian Group of Tehran was not be able to be officially registered in Iran and Homayounpour claims that it has internal legitimacy! She said in ‘her’ congress (it is available on IPA site):
‘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.’You see? They even distort words such as ‘desire’! Of course there are some good questions: how could Homayounpour have known about such a thing as ‘desire’ if it was not for the work of Dr. Kadivar for 20 years in Iran? Is these things taught in VGSP Inc in USA where Homayounpour studied? Thanks to stolen lessons and CDs of Dr. Kadivar classes, Ms. Homayounpour knows about ‘desire’ today!
– What Sanati and Homayounpour do is registered to psychoanalysis. Sanati marries his ‘analysand’, Homayounpour analyzes people by telephone for 3 months and let them analyze people and we hear bad news every day about what these ‘wild psychoanalysts’ do as psychoanalysis, let me just name some of them: sexual abuse of clients, letting themselves to have sexual relationship with anybody they like just because it makes them ‘happy’, hitting and insulting people (members of Freudian association) in a psychoanalytical congress! (Homayounpour did it), telling big lies (both Sanati and Homayounpour), plagiarism (again Homayounpour did it), registering Freud to themselves (Sanati and Homayounpour) and trying to omit Dr. Kadivar from Earth (again both Sanati and Homayounpour).
– In cities like Mashhad and Isfahan besides Tehran, there are people who have been analyzed by telephone by Homayounpour or Siamak Movahedi or other related persons and call themselves psychoanalyst after being analyzed ‘telephonically’ for ‘3 months’ and the first thing they do is to buy a coach to prove that they are real analyst! One wonders that why a person should pass the hard way of personal analysis when he/she can become an analyst just by buying a coach?!

Now you can see how hard we should work to combat such greed that you know is very epidemic.
Thank you for your kind consideration.

Yours Sincerely and with Great Respect
Member of Freudian association of Iran
Marjan Poshtmashhadi

Dear Dr. Miller,
When I read the letter of Roxane Irani, I was wandered for similarities in between Gohar Homaionpour, Dr. Mohamad Sanati, Esmat Torkghashghaei and Roxane Irani. Thanks the God that he created and chooses our Freudian association opponents (wild psychoanalysts) from forgetful fabricators*. As Torkghashghaei mentioned in the following web sites address, she is a psychoanalyst from the French!!http://tebagahi.com/15/advertisementpocketimage_show/270/info.html
http://www.mamasani.com
http://www.raahenoo.com

She needs to remind your nationality for herself. And she has to review the locality of the WAP, École de la Cause freudienne, NLS, Euro Federation of psychoanalysis, Uforca and the Lacan Quotidien every time. In addition, she cannot stablish relation between Dr. Sanatai and Homaionpour educational certificates which are coming into questions and her own claims for being psychoanalyst. Fortunately, obtuseness is not an obstacle for being wild psychoanalyst!!
Farther more, Roxane Irani’s false alarms about sexual relations outside the marriage contract, “Acid culture” and recent violence events in Iran, vs Gohar and her idea about our association and their nagging about everything are not weird and strange for such wild psychoanalysts. Roxane can have a long discussion with Gohar Homayonpor about such issues. They can have a lot of cooperation, especially. If they don’t know each other, please say someone to introduce them.
Dr. Miller! What would happen if you and Julia Kristeva supported Gohar, Roxane and Esmat Torkeghashghaei instead of Dr. Kadivar?! As Roxane mentioned, you should be careful about “under- achievers”, people with frustrations and persons who have problem with “Mitra” sleeping.
Finally, decency claimants who are suffering from vulgar mockeries and sordid accusations, having some irrational options to you: select an Iranian translator (among this wild psychoanalysts), close the Pandora ’s Box to prevent the chain of irrelevant events, recognize the wild psychoanalysts officially as Dr. Kadivar colleagues, or at least give them a credit to decency wins! Please forgive their faults. They are not representative of Iranian population.With the best regards,
Soodeh Sahraei,
The Freudian association member

* It is a mixture of two famous Persian proverbs. The first one says: “ The fabricator is forgetful” ; and the other one says: “Thanks the God, that he created our enemies from fool people”

 
Dear Mr. Miller,

I am writing concerning the letterpublished on 1st December in Freudian Association’s website,[1]. She or he (Hisidentity is not known!) have writed: “propagande et complotcontre le gouvernementislamique! et du genre moral, accusant les personnes en question d’avoir des relations sexuelles en dehors du contrat du mariage; les deux genres d’accusationsétantpassibles de peine de mort, parfois par lapidation.” I would like to mention some points about this sentence:
1. Under no circumstance, nobody in Freudian Association’s website have said “conspiracy against the Islamic government”, we just quoted from goharHomayounpour which said in Freud Museum: “the Iranian government, called it the enemy of state-psychoanalysis- which I think they are right (people laughing aloud) and I totally agree.” This is a black picture of Iran and a big lie. You can find it in following link (Fifty-seven minutes):
http://www.podcast.de/episode/211546338/Doing%2BPsychoanalysis%2Bin%2BTehran/
Homayounpourattempts to relate campaign of “Mitra 2013″ to political issues. Therefore, she can release from responsibility of blackwashing in Freud Musem!!!2. In section of “answer to questions” of website, individuals have commented their experiences and knowledge about “wild Psychoanalysis”. For instance, one person has said: “a wild Psychoanalist believes as happiness is significant, you can do everything to be happy, even if it happened by relation with your husband’s friend!” it is also seen a group of people have stated that wild psychonalyste encourage them to have intercourse with them as therapy!!!
In connection with “sur le site de Kadivar non seulementaucuneréactionmais des incitations à “LAVER” “le visage” de ceux qui ne luiplaisent pas par “L’ACIDE de la culture”.” I would like to point out an unknown person on 27th Decembere (exactly 5 days before Roxane had sent an email for you) had wrote in the section of “answer to questions” of website.
However, previously we received messages that they were trying to motivate us to talk about Acid instead of Sana’ti’s certificate, as they believe that it is a small issue and we have to spend our time to more significant problem such as Acid. I think they really are going to became symbol of lie, as they lie too much.I agree with them as they said ” vousavezouvert la boîte de Pandore “, because they are suffering lots of misfortunes and disasters after saving Mitra. It is the most “désastreuses” for them, because they can not hold their fake congress easily, as members of Freudian Association of Iran’s participate in them. Facts revealed. Sana’ti’s certificate went in doubt. It was found gohar Homayounpour’s certificate is invalid. An arrest was issued for 2 of wild Psychoanalist. They ashamed and it is still continuing.

Recently, about a report published on Yahoonews, members of Freudian Association of Iran commented. They write about Roxane, daughter of Darius the third, the last king of Achaemenid Empire, a great Empire in ancient Persia.[2]
They even imitate their fake names from Freudian Association.
They lie repeatedly and steal ideas and then they became “angry” by revealing.

Best regards
Massoume Hashemi Taheri
Member of Freudian Association

1. http://freudianassociation.org/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84-%D9%85%D8%B0%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A8%D9%87-%DA%98%DA%A9/
2. http://news.yahoo.com/fever-mounts-stunning-statues-found-ancient-greek-tomb-230438392.html

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