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Visiting Faculty of English, Ashoka University
Psy.D. Stanford UniversityAmrita Narayanan is a practicing Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst. Amrita read History and French at Middlebury College, Vermont, and earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from the Stanford University Psy.D. consortium in California (2007). She trained as a psychoanalyst via the Indian Psychoanalytical Society (IPA 2019).
She is the author of Women’s Sexuality and Modern India: In a Rapture of Distress (Oxford University Press, 2023); the editor of The Parrots of Desire: 3000 years of Erotica in India (Aleph Books, 2018); and an essayist for Pha(bu)llus: a cultural history of the Phallus (Harper Collins, 2020). Her writing has appeared in academic journals such as Psychodynamic Practice and Psychoanalytic Review; newspapers such as The Hindu and The Indian Express; and popular press periodicals such as Outlook, Open Magazine, and India Today.
Amrita has been a psychotherapist in practice since 2007. Her current research subject (under a grant from the International Psychoanalytic Association) is the India period archive of Italian Psychoanalyst Emilio Servadio.
