Lara Sheehi is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar, and a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa's Institute for Social and Health Sciences. She is the founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. She is the co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation, which won the Middle East Monitor's 2022 Palestine Book Award. Lara is the President of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA, Division 39) and on the advisory board for the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network.
