Maryam Nadi
Psychoanalytic practitioner and psychoanalystPsychology and Counseling Organization membership: 27284
My perspective on the therapy room:
Psychoanalytic therapy is an in-depth process focused on discovering the unconscious roots of psychological difficulties. From the therapist's perspective, it offers clients an opportunity to identify hidden mental patterns, inner conflicts, and repressed feelings. Through free association, expressing thoughts and dreams, and exploring past and present relationships, clients examine unconscious influences on their behavior and emotions.
The therapist uses several tools in this process. Resistance refers to the client's unconscious efforts to avoid painful feelings or memories. Transference is the process through which clients attribute feelings and expectations from past relationships to the therapist; analyzing it helps deepen the understanding of conflicts and emotional patterns. Dream analysis explores symbols and dream content as a window into the unconscious. Free association encourages clients to express whatever comes to mind without censorship or judgment.
These tools help the psychoanalyst reach deeper layers of the client's mind. Through continuing analysis and reflection on these experiences, the therapist helps clients recognize recurring psychological patterns and work toward deep, lasting changes in the structure of their personality.
Areas of expertise Maryam Nadi
Adult psychotherapy
- Psychoanalysis
Academic background Maryam Nadi
- Master’s degree Clinical Psychology Science and Research University, Tehran
- Bachelor’s degree Information Science and Knowledge Studies Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Responsibilities and Academic and Executive Background Maryam Nadi
- Psychologist at West Tehran Health Center (For one year)
- Online psychologist at Hamkadeh Counseling Center (For two years)
- Therapist at Zharfa Psychotherapy Clinic (For one year)
- Therapist at the Psychology and Counseling Center ACECR, Mashhad
- Member of the Tehran Freudian Group (1395 Solar Hijri–present)
- Completion of courses 1 and 2 on Melanie Klein’s concepts and ideas Dr. Mahdieh Moein
- Completion of a two-year course in child and adolescent psychoanalysis Dr. Shahla Alizadeh
- Completion of a workshop on psychoanalytic technique Dr. Abolghasem Hesam
- Completion of an introductory workshop on pharmacotherapy Dr. Solmaz Alaei
- Completion of a course on perversion Dr. Aghileh Mousavi
- Completion of an introductory workshop on Lacanian psychoanalysis Dr. Ehsan Goli
