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Human history shows four developmental stages of therapy for mental health problems, including: magical, medical, psychological, and systemic approaches. Each approach offers specific interventions due to the specific definition of psychopathology. Based on Cybernetic Epistemology and General Systems Theory, family therapy emerged in 1950s that was a paradigmatic shift in the field of mental health. Such a shift invited professionals to move from Linear thinking/causality to Circular thinking/causality: that is, the focus of the study moved from intrapsychic concepts to ongoing relational patterns and contextual factors within and around the family system. However, it has not yet become the dominant approach in the field due to some reasons that will be addressed in this lecture. We will discuss systemic family therapy, its principles, and a few clinical concepts: family emotional system and tendency to linear thinking, Multigenerational family emotional process-transitional mechanisms-and genetic factors, triangles and symptom development. Then we will compare it to psychiatric and psychologic explanations of psychopathology. This lecture includes some clinical case examples to elaborate diagnostic and therapeutic functions of systemic approach. Finally, we will discuss systemic epistemology as an approach for multidisciplinary research. This talk also helps us to improve our knowledge about relational-health in marriage and family, so you are welcome to bring your significant others.

 

About the Speaker:

AAMFT Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor
Hassan Karimi Ph.D. is a Clinical Fellow of American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). He has teaching experience at Ferdowsi University, Virginia Tech U., Iona College, and currently at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Karimi’s research interests include common mechanisms of change in successful therapies, cultural issues in family therapy, childhood adversities and family relationships. He has co-authored a book chapter and articles in the field of marriage and family therapy.
Dr. Karimi has 23 years of clinical experience in mental health field both in Iran and the US. He practiced as a clinical psychologist in Iran. Later, he got his Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He did his Ph.D. internship at Mental Research Institute (MRI) which is the birthplace for Family/Systemic Therapies in mental health field. Dr. Karimi is a licensed therapist in Virginia, New York, and Maryland. He provides in-person and online therapy services. He also got the Approved Supervisor Designation from AAMFT that qualifies him to train and supervise therapists for advance clinical practice. He is an online volunteer supervisor to a few clinics in Iran too. Dr. Karimi recently founded a Family Therapy Institute in Virginia, where he is looking forward to clinical and research collaboration with medical colleagues to explore the interaction between family emotional system and medical symptoms/diseases.

 

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Saadi is widely recognized as one of the greatest figures in classical Persian literature. But what  makes him stand out among all of his peers?  His Splendid quality of writings in different genre? His eloquence? Or depth of his social and moral thoughts?

Iran, had experienced one of the most compulsive period of its history in 12 and 13th Century. Still involving with Northern savaged tribes invasions, the country encountered crusade war and Moghuls ambush. Saadi as a prominent Persian poet whose works are the explicit reflection of his era was heavily influenced by this human violence and savagery. This lecture would try to cast a light on some of his works which could articulate this influence through his characteristics and his unique humanistic discourse in that violent era.

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As an Assistant Professor of Persian Literature Dr. Bazargan taught at Azad University for more than ten years. He is also a member of the academic board of the Great Encyclopedia of Islam since 2004. He has contributed entries for Encyclopedia of Persian language and Literature and was the senior editor of Journal of Culture and Literature in Azad University. During the 2003-2004 academic year, he was at Harvard University with a Research fellowship grant at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Dr. Bazargan came to the US in 2013 as a visiting scholar of California State University of Northridge in the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program. In September 2015 he joined the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies as a Visiting assistant professor in Persian studies.

 

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