THE CITY CIRCLE

The City Circle is pleased to present 'The Hidden, the Unconscious and the Strange', a talk by Shahnawaz Haque. In which he willl offer some observations and reflections on a number of problematic or puzzling aspects of behaviour - based on partly or deeply unconscious processes - affecting the Muslim community and including some darker and not-so talked-about areas. The speaker will, inshaa'Allah, also attempt to offer ways of understanding and tackling such difficulties. 

Biography: 

Shahnawaz Haque has for several years been a Friday Imam and Khateeb at a number of mosques - currently four - in Essex and East London. Shahnawaz graduated in Physics from Cambridge University in 1985. After a few years of working in the City he trained and qualified as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He has been working therapeutically with the Muslim community for approximately fifteen years and has a private practice as an 'Islamic Psychotherapist'. Additionally he is involved with Respond (an organisation providing psychotherapy for people with learning disabilities who have been sexually traumatised) and with the Clinic for Dissociative Studies (who specialise in dissociative disorders including what used to be known as multiple personality disorder).