Our consulting rooms are shaped by caste, religion, language, gender, and politics, all realities rarely reflected in the theories we inherit.

• 12 monthly seminars with dialogic teaching and clinical reflection to engage with questions that undergird the Indian clinician’s experience of countertransference.

Course details

• Twelve seminars with eminent faculty from India, Australia, and the USA.
• Engage in sustained theoretical and clinical dialogue, drawing on their academic and clinical expertise.
• Designed for practicing clinicians interested in psychodynamic thinking, and for therapists across orientations who want to develop a deeper, culturally grounded understanding of countertransference.

Faculty

• Kanika Mehrotra: Course Director
  Psychotherapist, Green Oak Initiative, Bangalore
• Malika Verma: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Tara Institute, Melbourne
• Dhwani Shah: Psychiatrist, Supervising Analyst and Instructor at the
  Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
• Padma Kasturi: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Bangalore
• Deepti Sachdev: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Scholar, New Delhi
• Sanjay Nath: Psychodynamic psychotherapist, Founder, Many Rivers
  Collective, L.L.C, Pennsylvania, PA
• Poornima Bhola: Psychotherapist, Professor, NIMHANS, Bangalore
• Jyoti Rao: Psychoanalyst, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, San
  Francisco
• Shifa Haq: Assistant Professor, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Delhi

MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION

• Entering the Clinic in India   |  17th Apr   |  Malika Verma
• Countertransference: Field as Diagnosis   |  15th May   |  Dhwani Shah
• Countertransference: Body and Silences   |  26th Jun   | Padma Kasturi

MODULE 2: STRUCTURES OF HISTORY AND CULTURE

• Caste and the Ethics of Listening   |  17th Jul   |  Deepti Sachdev
• Gendered Transference: Maternal and Erotic   |  21st Aug   |  Sanjay Nath
• Inherited Wounds: Partition in the Clinic   |  18th Sep   |  Poornima Bhola
• Language and Loss in Translation   |  16th Oct   |  Sanjay Nath

MODULE 3: SACRED, POLITICAL, VIOLENT

• Political Unconsious: Nation and Identity   |  13 Nov   |  Jyoti Rao
• Religion, Fantasy, and the Sacred   |  18 Dec   |  Shifa Haq
• When Violence enters the Room   |  21 Jan   |  Shifa Haq

MODULE 4 – INTEGRATION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

• Aesthetic Countertransference: Literature, Film, Media   |  19th Feb   |  Poornima Bhola
• Countertransference as Compass: Integration and Fragmentation   |  19th Mar   |  Kanika Mehrotra