Dr. Amir Hossein Jalali Nadoushan is a psychiatrist with over 14 years of academic and clinical experience in mental health. After earning the top rank in Iran’s national psychiatry board examination, he began his career as a faculty psychiatrist in 2009. Since then, he has remained deeply engaged in both the clinical and academic dimensions of psychiatry, with a particular focus on social and psychodynamic psychiatry. His formal training in psychodynamic field includes graduation from the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program at the Tehran Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, specialized training in interpersonal psychodynamic psychotherapy through an online course at the William Alanson White Institute in New York, and a diploma in Group Analysis from the Stockholm Group Analysis Institute. Throughout his career, he has had the privilege of learning from and working alongside esteemed psychoanalysts, including Dr. Spyros Orphanos, director of the postdoctoral program at NYU, as well as Susan Warsaw and Judy Roth, both prominent relational psychoanalysts based in New York. He is the founding chair of the Iran chapter of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (IARPP) and was honored to be selected as a fellow at the Teacher Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 2021. His academic and clinical work is shaped by a deep interest in the cultural dimensions of psychiatric disorders and psychotherapy in Iran. He has presented lectures at numerous national and international conferences and served as the scientific secretary of the Fourth Iranian Congress of Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (2023). Beyond academia, he is committed to supporting the next generation of mental health professionals. He founded and served as the secretary of the Davidian Award for Young Psychiatrists, a national initiative recognizing and encouraging emerging talent in psychiatry. To foster dialogue and promote theoretical diversity within Iran’s psychotherapy community, he co-founded the Manjeh Educational Group for Comparative Approaches to Psychoanalysis, an initiative dedicated to interdisciplinary learning, pluralism, and critical exchange. In addition to his clinical and academic contributions, Dr. Jalali Nadoushan has played an active role in making essential psychotherapeutic literature accessible to Persian-speaking professionals. His published translations include Psychodynamic Formulation by Deborah Cabaniss et al. and Utilization of Psychodynamic Theories in Family Settings. He is currently working on the translation of two additional texts, including The Relational Revolution by Steven Kuchuk.