Dr. Moussavi holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and is a graduate of the Freudian Group of Tehran. She is responsible for the Progression Committee of the Freudian Group of Tehran and serves as a lecturer in psychoanalytic courses, an individual psychoanalytic therapist, and supervisor in the Bionian approach.
She has received training and supervision in the Bionian and Post-Bionian approaches through online courses at the institute of Psychoanalysis in British Psychoanalytic Society and also under the guidance of psychoanalysts affiliated with the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), including Dr. Stefano Bolognini, Dr. Giuseppe Civitarese in Italy and also Dr. Gohar Homayounpour in Iran.
Dr. Moussavi’s research interests include women and the perspectives of postmodern feminist psychoanalysts, particularly Julia Kristeva, culture and society, body, perversion, and technology in Iranian society, as well as clinical work.
In this regard, she has presented articles at the congresses of the International Psychoanalytical Association in India and domestic congresses such as the Psychotherapy and Dynamic Psychoanalysis Congress in Iran, in collaboration with her colleagues. Some of the titles include “An Analytic review of the Oedipus Complex and the Paternal Function in Rustem and Sohrab,” “Rereading of Freudian Family Romances in Romances of Iranian Families (Hysteria in Technological Romances),” and “The Broken Container: Exploring the Impact of Recent Collective Traumas in Iran on the Therapist in the Therapeutic Room from a Bionian Perspective.”
She is also involved in translating psychoanalytic literature, including the works “Language of Psychoanalysis” by Laplanche and Pentalysis (in collaboration with other translators), as well as “Bi-personal field: Experiences in Child Analysis” by Antonino Ferro, which are currently in the process of being published.
Dr. Moussavi’s clinical work focuses on psychoanalytic therapy with a post-Bionian approach.
