Dr. Mehr-Afarin Kohan is a Toronto-based psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. She received her medical degree from SUNY Upstate Medical University, completed her residency in psychiatry at the University of Toronto and completed her analytic training at the Toronto Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (TICP). She spends most of her time doing long-term psychotherapy and psychoanalysis at her private practice in Toronto and works with refugees at the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture (CCVT). She is a psychodynamic psychotherapy supervisor at the University of Toronto. She is a board member, academic director and faculty at the TICP. She is the co-chair of the IARPP’s Candidates Committee. She was the recipient of the 2016 Susanne Chassay Memorial Paper Award from the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC). She has previously published in the Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalytic Quarterly. She is also an award-winning published fiction writer. For more information visit mehrafarinkohan.com.