Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D.

This seminar focuses on the therapist’s and patient’s dilemmas concerning sociocultural issues in the therapeutic relationship. Dr. Tummala-Narra will expand on her framework for culturally informed psychoanalytic therapy (Tummala-Narra, 2016), particularly in the context of the contemporary sociopolitical climate. This elaboration of the framework will include the interaction of personality and social context, complex subjectivity and relational stress implicated in race and culture, and the challenge of humanizing sociocultural difference. The seminar aims to deepen understandings of the splitting of good vs. bad and us vs. them in our broader social world, and related social isolation, fear, and mistrust. The format includes lecture, case material, and discussion.

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