The Collective was established by Ananya Kushwaha, Padma Janaki Kasturi, Priya Tiwari, Ritika Arora, and Urvashi Agarwal in 2015. Each founding member has undergone intensive psychoanalysis and has been practicing for over a decade.
Our present team includes Ananya Kushwaha, Priya Tiwari, Ritika Arora, and Urvashi Agarwal. Each of us continues our intensive training in the spirit of lifelong learning, honing our craft through supervision and various clinical and academic engagements. We are all members of the Indian Psychoanalytical Society and the International Psychoanalytical Association, and are bound by their ethical codes.
A psychoanalyst who works with a range of issues across a variety of patient populations across India. She brings a particularly local flavour to the practice of psychoanalysis. Drawing inspiration from artistic expressions, she brings a deeply creative sensibility to clinical work alongside her private practice. Has extensive experience of working in community settings with underprivileged populations alongside an urban and international clientele. She is equally comfortable in Hindi and English. She has presented papers in national and international conferences and writes in journals, and magazines in both languages.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapist and researcher she explores the intricacies of emotional change and the receptive nature of the clinical encounter. Her clinical interests include psychosomatic issues, narcissistic vulnerabilities, issues of dependence, shame and other such primitive mental states that hinder psychic growth and call for attention. She engages in international scholarship through editorial work, writing and dialogue, bridging the gap between deep psychoanalytic thought and the challenges of everyday life.
A psychoanalyst and researcher, who engages with psychoanalysis as a form of clinical practice and a discipline that enables reflection of the human condition. She has an interest in the relational and familial dimension of experience, intergenerational trauma, psychosomatic expressions, primitive emotional states, experiences of loss and grief, psychic reverberations of contemporary culture, impacts of migration and exile, and effects of collective social violence. She is an active member of the psychoanalytic community in India and internationally, writes in journals and magazines, and serves on various global committees and editorial boards.
An advanced trained psychoanalytic psychotherapist with a doctorate in psychology, she works with adults and couples, with a focus on intergenerational trauma, relational issues, familial and social violence, and borderline, psychotic and psychosomatic states. She has worked in some renowned hospitals in India, prior to setting up her own practice. She loves to write. Her papers are mostly on gender, women and subjectivity. She has published widely in international journals and has contributed chapters to important books. She has won a writing award for one of her papers. As a member of the Indian and international psychoanalytic communities, she has presented in international conferences and serves on international editorial boards and committees.
A Note on Confidentiality
Everything discussed in sessions is strictly confidential. The only exceptions are the standard legal and ethical requirements, which your therapist will explain at the outset.