Psycho-dynamic or Psycho-analytic Therapy aims at helping a person to move towards more insight and self-awareness. It assists in enabling the individual to distinguish subjective and objective realities. Therapy mobilizes the vibrant aspects of the self, facilitates the individual in recognizing events and experiences from the past that impact the present and overall helps to make informed life choices.

What turns an aam admi into a monster?

The myth that psychopaths and sociopaths are out there in slums, ghettos and mental asylums stands shattered by the frequent reports of brutal torture of maids and domestic servants in middle-class homes. It turns out that the manager next door, the airhostess in the flat above or even the doctor across the road could be battering that tribal girl from Jharkhand. Jagriti Singh, accused of beating her maid Rakhi to death, in all likelihood tries her best to cause least discomfort and pain to her patients.

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Childrearing practices, culture and psychology

The vexed saga of the two Bhattacharya children Aishwarya and Abhigyan, taken away in May 2011 from their Indian parents by the Norwegian Child Welfare Agency, (Barnevernet) created unprecedented uproar with protests outside the Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi. Such were the extent of passions which raged that the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of India contacted their counterparts in Norway seeking their intervention in the matter of the custody of the two children.
Akin to the split which occurs between …

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WORKSHOPS

  1. Workshops on with judges at National Judicial Academy, Bhopal; Delhi Judicial Academy, Delhi and Karnataka Judicial Academy, Bengaluru on ‘Minimizing the Impact of Biases, Prejudices and Stereotypes on the Judicial- Decision Making Process’.
  2. Workshops on Advanced Training of Mediators by the Delhi High Court Mediation and Reconciliation Centre.
  3. Workshop with Indian Forest Service Officers in collaboration with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai.
  4. Workshop at De-addiction Centres.