Course Overview
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
