Dr. Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi

Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi, Ph.D. is a post doctoral and teaching fellow in the department of psychology at Harvard University. He teaches for the department of psychology at Harvard University and is a published author with numerous national and international conference presentations. In addition to teaching for Harvard University, he teaches at the University of British Columbia, Brandeis University, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis and the University of Tehran. Dr. Fatemi is the vice president of Psychology and Counseling Organization of I.R. of Iran in International Affairs. He is a member of the American psychological association, is a licensed and registered psychologist and brings mindfulness in his practice. He has been the keynote speaker of a number of international conferences including the first International Conference on Psychology, Religion and Culture and the fourth World Congress on Psychotherapy and the first International Conference of Management.

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Langerian Mindfulness and its implications for clinical psychology

This keynote presentation will demonstrate how Langerian Mindfulness would offer new avenues of exploration for clinical psychology. By virtue of an in-depth analysis of Langerain mindfulness as a distinct perspective in psychology, the talk will discuss how Langer's mindfulness would provide the clinicians with creativity and innovation in the process of helping the clients. The talk will argue how the clinician's position of knowing may impose a detrimental impact and may deteriorate the process of understanding the client. The keynote presentation will argue how the absence of mindfulness would impede the dialogical relationship between the clinician and the client and would dissipate the emergence of authentic voices. The presentation will elucidate how entrapment in clinically established schemas would prevent the clinicians from reaching the client and would end up in reiterating the perspective of the clinician as the only valid perspective. Mindlessness and its implications would contribute to widening gaps between the clinicians as observers and the clients as the actors. Mindfulness, on the other hand, would allow the clinician welcome new information and implement effective listening while exploring the context in which the client is embedded. The talk will explicate how Langerain mindfulness would facilitate the process of implementing a radical transformation of consciousness for both the clinician and the client.