Shahrzad Siassi

Shahrzad Siassi is a psychologist/psychoanalyst with a Ph.D from University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D in psychoanalysis from the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute (currently The New Center for Psychoanalysis). A senior faculty at the New Center for Psychoanalysis and a supervising and training analyst at the Newport psychoanalytic Institute, she is the recipient of the 2003 Karl Meninger Memorial Award of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Her area of research and interest include healthy aspects of human relatedness, with a special focus on forgiveness, the role of culture and religion in psychodynamic psychotherapy as well as shifting significance of transference in male patients and female analysts.