The Study and Practice of Psychoanalysis in India (Lecture/discussion in New York, Friday Oct 18)

By Dilip -
National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis
NPAP
Continuing Education Committee
Presents  
 The Study and Practice of Psychoanalysis in India
 by 


Madhu Sarin





 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2013





6:30 – 8:00 pm



N.P.A.P., 40 West 13 Street;



New York







In an informal question and answer session, Madhu Sarin, a practicing psychoanalyst in India, will discuss the study and practice of psychoanalysis in India. In addition, she will share her own psychoanalytic understanding of the disturbing incidents of rape, sexual violence, and the treatment of women in India. She will link her thinking with the deep roots of patriarchy in India, and the local conditions, and many socio/political /economic changes taking place there.







Madhu Sarin, an IPTAR graduate and member, practicing psychoanalyst in Delhi, India, has also practiced , supervised, and taught in the US and India; done clinical work with political refugees and torture victims; and conducted and coordinated several training workshops in many settings including the Health Department , Tibetan Government in Exile, in Dharamsala, India.







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 Committee: Diane Clemente, Alice Entin, Murray Gelman, Helen Goldberg, Judy Ann Kaplan (Chair), Edith Laufer, Loveleen Posmentier, Judith Rappaport, Penny Rosen












































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