Academics

Faculty & Staff

Siamak Movahedi, PhD

  • Professor of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
  • Telephone: 617-287-6267
  • Fax: 617-287-6288
  • Office Location: Wheatley Hall,04,00024

Areas of Expertise

Social Psychology, Social Psychiatry, Research Methods and Statistics

Degrees

PhD, Washington State University

Professional Publications & Contributions

  • Movahedi, S. (2012). Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Reported Dreams & the Problem of Double Hermeneutics in Clinical Research, Journal of Research Practice, Volume 8, Issue 2, Article M12.

  • Movahedi, S. & Homayounpour, G. (2012). The Couch and The Chador, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 93:1357–1375.

  • Fort! l Da! Through The Chador: The Paradox of The Woman’s Invisibility and Visibility (co-authored with Gohar Homayounpour), in Figures of the Unconscious. Vienna: Leuven University Press, forthcoming.

  • Homayounpour, G. & Movahedi, S. (2012). Transferential Discourse in the Language of the (M)other, Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/ Revue canadienne de psychanalyse, Vol. 20, No. 1, Pp. 114-143, Spring.

  • Movahedi, S. & Jacobs, G. (2012). "Death in the Service of Life: Individual and Cultural Projections and Practices." In Marcelline Block and Christina Staudt, eds., Unequal Before Death, 60-75. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

  • Death, Fantasy, and Politics of Self-Destruction. Reprinted (by the editor’s invitation) in I Problemi della Pedagogia. September, 2010.

  • Wall Street Scandals: The Myth of Individual Greed. (Co-authored with Laura Hansen). Sociological Forum. V. 25, No. 2, Pp 367-375. September 2010.

  • What do Postmodern Feminists Want From Freud & Psychoanalysis? A Response to Elizabeth Bruehl-Young’s paper on Third Wave Feminism & Psychoanalysis, Modern Psychoanalysis. 2009.

  • Weaponization of the Body and Politicization of Death. The Revista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental, v. 12 (number 1) March 2009, Pp. 71-93.

  • Psychoanalysis. Entry in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, ed. George Ritzer, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, Pp. 3694-3696.

Additional Information

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Current Research

Research on the linguistic structure of consciousness; Research on the relationship between social structure and psychopathology.