Sadeq Rahimi

Sadeq Rahimi is Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology and Associate Faculty in Psychiatry at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. He was born in Iran and moved to Canada in 1989. He received his Ph.D. in Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University and training in Child Psychoanalysis in Montreal, followed by a Postdoctoral Fellow appointment in Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a Research Fellow appointment at the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and clinical training in Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy. His main clinical and research focus has been on issues of culture, history and subjectivity. His current research covers political subjectivity in post-revolutionary Iran, historical and political dimensions of the dynamics of integration for Muslim communities in Western societies, and the development of an analytic model of meaning, power and political subjectivity. His upcoming book is titled, Subjects in History: Meaning, Madness and Political Selves in Modern Turkey.