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Sadeq Rahimi is an Iranian-Canadian medical anthropologist, psychoanalytic clinician, and author whose work examines culture, mental illness, human and artificial subjectivity, and politics. He is a professor of culture and psychoanalysis at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis and a lecturer in social medicine and global mental health at Harvard Medical School.[1][2]
Education and career
[edit]Rahimi studied English literature at Shiraz University before he left Iran for Canada as a political refugee in 1988.[1] In Canada he earned a bachelor's degree in cognitive social psychology from the University of Saskatchewan and master's and doctoral degrees in social and transcultural psychiatry from McGill University, followed by postdoctoral fellowships in Global Health and Social Medicine and in Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.[1][2]
Rahimi later received tenure at the University of Saskatchewan, where he taught medical anthropology and psychiatry, before joining Harvard Medical School as a visiting professor in Global Health and Social Medicine, and then joining the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis as a professor of psychoanalysis and culture.[1][2]
Research and publications
[edit]Rahimi's books include Meaning, Madness and Political Subjectivity (2015), an ethnographic study of schizophrenia and politics in Turkey, and The Hauntology of Everyday Life (2021), which examines memory, political affect, and the persistence of individual and collective pasts through symbolic systems.
His books have been reviewed in The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, and Somatosphere.[3][4][5] Barnaby B. Barratt praised the central thesis of The Hauntology of Everyday Life but wrote that the book said little about how the theory could be used in clinical work.[4] Ayşecan Terzioğlu considered the partial, unresolved nature of the case analyses in Meaning, Madness and Political Subjectivity one of the book's strengths, because it captured how reality appears in the illness narratives of psychotic patients.[5]
Rahimi has published articles and chapters in clinical and anthropological publications such as Transcultural Psychiatry, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Ethos, Subjectivity, and the Annual Review of Anthropology.[6]
Selected books
[edit]- Rahimi, Sadeq (2015). Meaning, Madness and Political Subjectivity: A Study of Schizophrenia and Culture in Turkey. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315732619. ISBN 978-1-138-84082-9.
- Rahimi, Sadeq (2021). The Hauntology of Everyday Life. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-78992-3. ISBN 978-3-030-78991-6.
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Dr. Sadeq Rahimi". Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. Retrieved 26 July 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Bio: Sadeq Rahimi". Harvard University. Retrieved 26 July 2026.
- ↑ Frosh, Stephen (2024). "The Hauntology of Everyday Life". The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 105 (6). doi:10.1080/00207578.2024.2302478.
- 1 2 Barratt, Barnaby B. (2025). "The impression of the past/not-past upon the experiences of the present: On Sadeq Rahimi's The Hauntology of Everyday Life". Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. 30: 238–246. doi:10.1057/s41282-024-00474-0.
- 1 2 Terzioğlu, Ayşecan (10 June 2016). "Sadeq Rahimi's Meaning, Madness and Political Subjectivity: A Study of Schizophrenia in Turkey". Somatosphere. Retrieved 26 July 2026.
- ↑ "Publications". Harvard University. Retrieved 26 July 2026.
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