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Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi

Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi, Ph.D. is an author, professor and psychologist. He teaches in the Department of Psychology at York University and is an adjunct faculty member in the Graduate Program in the Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at York University, Canada.

Dr. Fatemi completed his postdoctoral studies in the department of psychology at Harvard University where he has also served as a Teaching Fellow, an Associate and a Fellow. In addition to teaching at Harvard, he has also taught for the department of psychology at the University of British Columbia, Western Washington University, University of Massachusetts in Boston, University of Toronto, York University, Endicott College, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis and a few other institutions. He has supervised both master and doctoral students for their research projects and dissertations.

Dr. Fatemi is a frequently published author and has served as the keynote speaker of a number of international conferences and run workshops and seminars. He brings mindfulness in his psychological and therapeutic interventions and has run training and coaching programs for clinicians, practitioners and corporate people in North America, Europe and overseas.

His publications appear in Springer, Wiley, Templeton Press, Routledge, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Lexington publication, Roman & Littlefield, Palgrave Macmillan, American Psychiatric Association, and Journals such as APA's Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology and International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.

Dr. Fatemi is the recipient of the Ellen Langer international Mindfulness Award and is an active member of the American Psychological Association (APA) with numerous presentations at APA annual meetings.

Dr. Fatemi has practiced psychotherapy and hypnotherapy for more than a decade. His treatment areas of work include anxiety, depression, OCD, trauma, PTSD and relationship problems.

Publications (selection)

• Fatemi, S.M. (2023). Therapeutic applications of Langerian Mindfulness. Wiley.
• Fatemi, S.M. (2023). The Adventurer’s Mind: Exploring Mindset, Mindfulness, and Wisdom. In Reid, P & Brymer, E; (2023) Adventure Psychology; Going Knowingly into the Unknown. Routledge.
• Fatemi, S.M. (2021). The Psychology of Inner Peace. Cambridge University Press.
• Fatemi, S.M. (2021). Film Therapy: Practical Applications in a Psychotherapeutic Context. Routledge: New York.
• Fatemi, S. M. (2020). Psychology in Iran. In G. Rich, L. Ebersöhn, S. Morrissey, A. Padilla- Lopez, & J. Taylor (Eds.), Teaching psychology around the world(Volume 5), 280-289. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle, UK.
• Fatemi, S.M. & E.J. Langer (2020). Bridling the mindless ambivalence: Langerian mindfulness and suspension of intentionality. In B. Brogaard & D. E. Gatzia (Eds.), The Philosophy and Psychology of Ambivalence, 294-303. Routledge: New York & London.
• Fatemi, S. M. (2020). Langerian mindfulness and its implications for clinical hypnosis. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 68(2), 214–224.
• Fatemi, S. M. (2020). An overview of an Islam-based psychology. In T.A. Sisemore, & J.J. Knabb (eds.), The Psychology of world religions and spiritualities: an indigenous perspective, 117-137. Templeton Press.
• Fatemi, S.M. & Langer, E. J. (2019). Mindfulness and creativity. In. V.G. Carrion & J. Rettger, (Ed.), Applied Mindfulness Approaches in Mental Health for Children and Adolescents. American Psychiatric Association Publishing.
• Schneider, K. & Fatemi, S.M. (2019). Polarized Mind. Scientific American.
• Fatemi, S.M. & Kirkcaldy, B. (2019). Physician, heal thyself: a manifesto for a sagacious and mindfulness cure for the embroiled world of psychotherapy. Minerva Psichiatrica.
• Fatemi, S. M., & Sisemore, T. A. (2019). An Islamic (Shia) psychological perspective on humanism. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 39(3), 135-146.
• Fatemi, S.M. (2018). The psychological power of language. Routledge: New York.
• Fatemi, S.M. (2018). A Phenomenology of Langerian Mindfulness: The Psychology of Presence. Lexington: New York.
• Fatemi, S.M. & Langer E.J., (2018). Langerian mindfulness and its psychotherapeutic implications: Recomposing/Decomposing mindlessly constructed life stories. In Bruce Kirkcaldy, (Ed.) Psychotherapy, Literature and the Visual and Performing Arts. Palgrave MacMillan: London, New York & Melbourne.
• Fatemi, S.M. (2018). Integrating Duaa Arafaa and Other Shiite Teachings into Psychotherapy. In C. York Al-Karam (Ed.), Islamically Integrated Psychotherapy: Uniting Faith and Professional Practice. (pp. 275 - 291). Templeton Press.
• Fatemi, S.M. ( 2016). Critical mindfulness: Exploring Langerian models. Springer: New York.
• Fatemi, S.M. (2016). Langerian Mindfulness and Liminal Performing Spaces. In A.L. Baltzell (Ed.), Mindfulness and performance (Current perspectives in social and behavioral sciences) (pp. 112-124). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
• Fatemi, S.M., Ward, E.D., and Langer, E.J. (2016). Peak performance: Langerian mindfulness and flow. In A.L. Baltzell (Ed.), Mindfulness and performance (Current perspectives in social and behavioral sciences) (pp. 101-111). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
• Sundararajan, L., & Fatemi, S. M. (2016). Creativity and symmetry restoration: Toward a cognitive account of mindfulness. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 36(3), 131–141.
• Fatemi, S.M. (2016). Mindfulness and perceived control: controlling the impossibility of controllability. In Reich, J. W., & Infurna, F. J. (Eds.), Perceived control: Theory, research, and practice in the first 50 years (pp. 131-146). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Fatemi, S. M. (2014). Exemplifying a shift of paradigm: Exploring the psychology of possibility and embracing the instability of knowing. In A. le, C. T. Ngnoumen, & E. J. Langer (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell handbook of mindfulness (pp. 115–138). Wiley Blackwell.
• Fatemi, S. M. (2014). Questioning the Unquestionability of the Expert’s Perspective in Psychology. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 55(3), 263-291.
• Fatemi, S.M. (2014). From Kierkegaard to Langer (From Kierkegaard’s paradox to Langer’s psychology of possibility). Frontiers in Psychology. Front Psychol. 16 October 2014.
• Fatemi, S.M. (2014). The Indeterminacy of Sensual Expressiveness and the Fluidity of Mindfulness. Journal of Psychology & Clinical Psychiatry 1(7): 00043.
• Fatemi, S.M. (2014). Virtual Aging and Langerian Psychology of Possibility (Revisiting the Medical Disempowering Models of Aging). Journal of Psychology and Clinical Psychiatry 1(3): 00016.