Bridges Across Oceans: A Muslim Perspective on the Psychological Challenges Faced by 2nd Generation Immigrants
Date: Wednesday, April 9: 7:30pm-9pm
Credits: 1.5 CE
Speaker: Zahra Tina Ali Mohammad, MD, Dale C. Godby, PhD
Meeting is both on Zoom & in-person at:
The Center for Integrative Counseling & Psychology
4305 MacArthur Ave.
Dallas, TX 75209
Using the concept of disenfranchised grief, we will explore how a hermeneutic analysis of Islam can address the therapeutic tasks inherited by subsequent generations of immigrants
Learning Objectives:
Define the concept of disenfranchised grief.
Define the terms, “1st” “2nd and 3rd generations” of immigrants.
Illustrate ways in which “skipped grief” evolves into conflicts unique to each generation’s experience.
Explore Dalal’s definition of “recognition” and the pitfalls inherent in our assumptions that unintentionally inhibit the therapy patient’s exploration of their lived experience of faith and culture.
Explore how the hermeneutic analysis of Islam can be leveraged in psychoanalysis and invite these generations to recognize their conflicts and do the grief work unwittingly bequeathed to them.
Give one clinical example of how a therapist may use the hermeneutic approach in psychodynamic therapy.
Presenter Biography:
Zahra Tina Ali Mohammad, M.D. is an American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology Certified medical doctor with training in prescribing medications and psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, individual, family, couples and group therapy. She graduated from Texas A&M College of Medicine in 2010 and completed Residency in General Psychiatry from UT Southwestern in 2014 where she was the recipient of the Andreeson Award in psychotherapy and Medical Student Teaching.
In addition to her work in private practice, she has also been Principal Investigator at Relaro Medical Trials, a clinical trials company that specializes in innovative research in the field of mental health. She brings years of this experience with her into private practice and maintains her relationship with clinic to stay up to date on the latest breakthroughs.
Dr. Dale Godby is a founding member of the Group Analytic Practice of Dallas and was the fourth president of DSPP. He is Volunteer Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas where he is the three-time award winner of the Outstanding Clinical Teaching Award by the Psychiatry Residents Organization and is the recent recipient of the Paul C. Mohl Award for Excellence and Dedication in Psychotherapy Supervision. He has been a frequent co-host of the Workshop Reflective Citizens Koinonia by Koinonia-Art Belgrade, Serbia.
References:
Presenter/References/Reading (as applicable):
Fayek, A. (2004) Islam and its effect on my practice of psychoanalysis: Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol. 21, No. 3, 452–457
Hale Usak (26 Jun 2024): On female melancholia in migration: Interpretations from Turkish-Muslim culture with a case vignette, International Forum of Psychoanalysis, DOI: 10.1080/0803706X.2024.2303060
Akhtar, Salman. (2012) Book review accepted for publication April 2014 (doi: 10. 1176/appi.ajp.2014.14040428): Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2012, 145 pp
Alan Z. Skolnikoff (2009) The Crescent and the Couch: Cross‐Currents between Islam and Psychoanalysis, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 90:4, 923-927, DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2009.00184_2.x
Farhad Dalal (2008) Thought paralysis: tolerance, and the fear of Islam, Psychodynamic Practice, 14:1, 77-95, DOI: 10.1080/14753630701768982
Rodrigo Barahona (2016) On: The couch and the chador, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 97:5, 1429-1429, DOI: 10.1111/1745-8315.12499
M. Zuhdi Jasser (2017) The identity struggle within Islam: Discussion of “Thoughts on the inner conflict within Islamic culture: Their existential anxieties and ours,” by Malcolm Owen Slavin, PhD, International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 26:3, 168-173, DOI: 10.1080/0803706X.2017.1333143
Malcolm Owen Slavin (2017) Thoughts on the inner conflict within Islamic culture: Their existential anxieties and ours, International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 26:3, 160-167, DOI: 10.1080/0803706X.2017.1333141
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