Category: Uncategorised Note
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A Poet’s Fantasy, A Persian Romance
(This essay contains fragments of a talk I presented at a symposium in Melbourne in 2018.) The epic love story of Qays (known as Majnun) and his beloved Leili is a Persian tragedy written by the 11th century poet, Nezami Ganjavi. Over the centuries, the legend became the ultimate meaning of love in cultures influenced…
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A Purple Car In Melbourne
Recently I saw a purple BMW and the thought of this purple BMW in the Melbourne traffic stayed with me. It was a disruption. The purple was a purple without a metallic shine. It looked like Hobby the Turkish chocolate my father bought for me each time I visited my uncle’s shop together with him…
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2023 Australian Medicare Debate: The Better or Worse Access to Mental Health
This is a hot topic right now considering the Australian Government just cut 10 sessions from the already very limited 20 Medicare rebates for psychology. I am a critic of the Medicare Better Access Initiative and I have wanted to write something about it for some time. I participated in writing an APS submission regarding…
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The King is Dead
Last week leaving supervision I was reminded of the banners from the photographs taken of the 1979 Iran revolution, the banner and tabloids said that the King left. Like after that intersection turn left and if you don’t know where you are, find yourself a psychoanalyst. It is at that intersection with the street named…
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I Love, I Desire
We always fall in love without knowing what it was that made us fall in love in the first place. It could be a first thought that passed through our mind that gave us a pleasant feeling. Have you ever had this when you met someone and you thought what a nice hair they have,…
Bita Riazati Psychoanalyst 