Dr Sadeghian's Professors

Dr. Goldberg

World renowned neuropsychologist. Famous for his accomplishments and innovations in neuropsychology. He was Dr. Sadeghian's main professor for neuropsychology. Dr. Sadeghian believes that all of his accomplishments in neuropsychology are due to Dr. Goldburg.

Dr. Carl Rodgers

He was the kindness most caring psychologist I ever saw and the only psychologist whose books I read in persian before coming to the USA.

Dr. Shariati

He was the most knowledgeable and the corageous man ever. Some people love him, some people think that he was badly mistaken. However, he lost his life for his beliefs and never made a dime over it. His car was the most beat up car I've ever saw any of my professors drive. His speeches were turned into books and those books were the backbone of Iranian revolution. Many people believe that he was the most influential man of the 20th century in Iran. If that is right or wrong, we will find out in a hundred years.

Dr. Barahani

He was a true scientist. He devoted his entire life to science. He was also the most educated professor I ever had. He had a doctorate from the University of London in education as well as a doctorate in psichometrics from the University of Illinois. He earned both of his degrees payed by scholarships by Iranian government because in every exam he was always number one. He gave up easy living as a professor in the US and lived in Terhan in totally adversarial conditions to write down the effects of revolution on human mind. He taugh me the value of research and ordered the first test that I had made to be printed in 2000 copies in Terhan. No man in my life has had much effect in shaping my mind in reference to science as he did. He died in a rural town in a one room apt full of books and nothing else.

Once when I was in his apartment in 1978, I noticed many books of Marks, Lenin, and Starlin including "The Capital". I asked him, "Dr. Barahani, you know well that these books are illegal in Iran and you could be shot for having them." He replied, "A life in which I am not permitted to read a book is not worth living, let them do it."

Under his supervision, I participated in the largest research program I have even being involved with, doing a comparative study of high school, college entrance examination, and college grades of all iranian students of four years. That studies purpose was to find out if the college entrance examination was of any value or a nuasence. Without advanced computers, only with the help of 20 selected students, he was able to stablish that addition of a simple IQ test had made the college evaluation exam an extremely useful tool in choosing the best students for college. Once the research was finished, he had more difficulty getting paid a few hundred dollards for what he had done. 

Dr. Shamloo

Founder of modern psychology in Iran. Dean of psychology in the University of Terhan. He permitted me to learn the administration and interpretation of the MMPI roschach and TAT in undergraduate years. He allowed me to become a pshycologist. Between him and Dr. Barahani, I was trained so well that there was no other choice except to become a pshychologist. Dr. Shamloo's publications, translations, articles, supersedes any professor I ever had.

In our last interaction in 1985, when I asked him about the total number of his students who were able to get a PhD. in clinical psychology, he replied, "I sent about 80 students out of Iran to study clinical psychology, you were my least hope, you were the only one who did it." It should be mentioned since then, many of my fellow classmates have attained doctoral degrees in different aspects of psychology.

Dr. Viktor Frankl

Probably the most famous pshychiatrist in the world. Author of "Man In Search of Meaning". Survived concentration camp. Dr. Sadeghian believes in Dr. Frankl's famous saying, "knowledge creates responsability".

Dr. Max Lerner

He knew american society and politics very well. He was aquainted with many american presidents and their families. He wrote a book on Kennedy's. He had strong opinions and I enjoyed fighting with him on just about every point he made. Although I learned a few things from him, the best learning experience in his class was that I had the ability to run the most famous of professors of humanities into ground in public with broken english becuase he was wrong again.