Gohar Homayounpour (; born 1977 in Paris) is a psychoanalyst and Gradiva Award–winning author. She currently lives in Paris, France.
Career and work
Homayounpour is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), the Italian Psychoanalytical Society (SPI), and the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP). She is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Freudian Group of Tehran, of which she is the founder and past president, and a member of the IPA group Geographies of Psychoanalysis.
She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna, Austria.
She is an invited international lecturer and is actively involved in teaching, supervision, and publishing across a broad range of institutions and universities worldwide. She serves on the editorial board of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly and on the editorial board of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.
Her first book, Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran, was published by MIT Press in 2012 with a foreword by Abbas Kiarostami. It won the Gradiva Award in 2013 and has been translated into several languages.
Her second book, Persian Blues: Psychoanalysis and Mourning, was published by Routledge in 2022.
Selected works
De Bellaigue, Christopher. "Neurotic gains." TLS. Times Literary Supplement, no. 5723, 7 Dec. 2012, p. 30. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A667239424/GPS?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=cdd7f92d. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.Bari, S., Homayounpour, G., & Shook, K. (2012). In treatment, state and system. Times Higher Education, (2072), 50. Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/docview/1238065125
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