Afaf Mahfouz

Organizations: NGOs
Professions: Psychoanalyst

PERSONAL INFORMATION


Psychoanalyst and Human Rights Activist

Afaf Mahfouz

1938

Education


Diploma, Psychoanalysis, Washington, 1985.

PhD, Legal Sciences, University of Paris, 1967.

MA, Public Law and Political Science, University of Paris, 1962.

BA, Law, Alexandria University, 1958.

 

languages


Arabic

English

French

COMPETENCES


Law

Psychoanalysis

Psychotherapy

WORK HISTORY


Representative of the International Psychoanalytic Association to the United Nations, 1998-2009.

Former President, Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO).

Assistant Professor and Director, Law Department, Helwan University, 1970-1987.

Honorary office and memberships


Member, Board of Directors, Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP).

Member, Board of Trustees, Women and Memory Forum (WMF).

Member, Organizing Committee, NGO Forum, Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing.

Productions and Works


The Future of Prejudice: Psychoanalysis And the Prevention of Prejudice. NY: Rowman and Littlefield Pub Inc, 2007.

smail Serageldin and Afaf Mahfouz, Self and the Other: Sustainability and Self-Empowerment.World Bank Publications, 1996.

Joseph H Smith and Afaf Mahfouz, Psychoanalysis, Feminism and the Future of Gender. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.

AWARDS


French State Award, 1983.

State Merit Award, Best Doctoral Dissertation, University of Paris, 1968.