Dr. Sanah Ahsan
Clinical Psychologist - Poet - Writer - Speaker - Educator
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“To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling”
– bell hooks, all about love
Selected Works
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The Lies About Mental Health
The Guardian article
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Poetry Interlude
anaiis’s album — devotion and the black divine
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This Messy Song is Ours
Essay for Serpentine
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Women and Mental Illness
The Guardian article
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Rewriting My Story as a Queer Muslim
Ted Talk December 2019
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Palestine, Poetry Review
Sanah Ahsan on ‘Altruism’
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Therapy in Context
Sanah Ahsan and Bayo Akomolafe
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Stolen Focus: Why we can't pay attention
Panel with Dr Gabor Maté
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Returning to The Queer Heart
With Charlotte Church
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Young, British and Depressed
Channel 4 Dispatches
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Allowing Our Hearts to Break
Too Little / Too Hard
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Child Poverty is Preventable
Big Issue: July 2024
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Propel Magazine
Issue Fifteen: Introduced and edited by Sanah Ahsan
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Endless Distraction and Inaction
The Psychologist article
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Anger, Activism & Healing
In conversation
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All About Love: bell hooks in memoriam
Panel discussion
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Racism and Children's Mental Health
Big Issue: April 2025
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The Practice of Care & Freedom
Google Talk AD Colour Leaders
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BBC Breakfast Interview
With Naga Munchetty
Poetry Collection:
I cannot be good
until you say it
Intricately weaving Quranic verse, psychology, and the hip-hop soundtrack of their childhood, Sanah's reach for divinity in the queer body; an archive that refuses erasure.
These poems traverse unruly emotional and physical landscapes, Whiteness, islamophobia, homophobia, masculinity, intergenerational suffering, suicidality and the politics of therapeutic processes. In these pages, belief and unbelief, goodness and badness, the material and spiritual are intertwined, reclaiming queer love and desire as holy.
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