Bio

Dr. Rahimi received his BA in Cognitive Social Psychology at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and his MSC and PhD in Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University.  He then served 4 years as postdoctoral fellow in Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and in Middle Eastern Studies at the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies.  Dr. Rahimi has also received clinical training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Montreal (McGill Psychoanalytic Institute) and in Boston (Boston Institute for Psychotherapy), and he has worked as a psychotherapist for many years in hospital and private settings. He has taught medical and psychological anthropology in various capacities in Canada (where he received his Tenure in 2014) and the United States, where he has taught as visiting professor at Harvard Medical School and serves as faculty member at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. 

Dr. Rahimi’s research and publication interests have covered diverse aspects of culture, health and subjectivity ranging from collective self-esteem and perception of racism to schizophrenia and culture, political subjectivity, radicalization, clinical trials, behavioral economics, and artificial intelligence. In an earlier book, Meaning, Madness and Political Subjectivity (Routledge, 2015), Dr. Rahimi explored the subjective experience of subjectivity as embedded and shaped by culture, politics, and history; and his most recent volume, The Hauntology of Everyday Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) examines patterns and mechanisms of intergenerational transmission of political affect through language and culture.  He recently co-edited with Professor Byron J. Good a special issue of Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology dedicated to a clinical, ethnographic, and theoretical discussion of haunting and hauntology.