Nima Ghorbani

Nima Ghorbani is a psychologist, full professor at the University of Tehran, a researcher in personality and psychotherapy, and a faculty member at the Washington School of Psychiatry. He is considered one of the key figures in the education and research of experiential dynamic psychology in Iran and has been involved in training therapists and clinical education in the field of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapies, particularly ISTDP.

Ghorbani is also an official supervisor of the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association, IEDTA. His educational activities are not limited to individual therapy and also encompass communication skills, unconscious processes, experiential training, and working with managers and professional groups.

The main focus of Nima Ghorbani's work can be summarized in several areas: self-knowledge, experiential dynamic psychotherapy, personality, spirituality, religion, human communication, and unconscious processes.

Together with Paul J. Watson, professor at the University of Tennessee, he has worked on the integrative self-knowledge model for over two decades. In this model, self-knowledge is not merely knowing a few personality traits; rather, it is a living, regulatory process that helps individuals better understand and organize their emotions, conflicts, relationships, and behaviors.

In Ghorbani's view, integrative self-knowledge is one of the main mechanisms of change in experiential dynamic psychotherapy and psychological education. That is, a person changes when they can see their inner experience more honestly, more integratively, and with greater awareness.