Expanding Sexuality, Liberating Aggression

Amrita Narayanan is a practicing Clinical Psychologist (Psy.D. 2007) and Psychoanalyst (Indian Psychoanalytic Society, 2019). She is the author of In a Rapture of Distress: Women's Sexuality and Modern India (Oxford University Press, 2023). She was the editor of and essayist in 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 essay Ambivalent Subjects (2014) was awarded the Taylor and Francis prize for best psychoanalytic writing under 40. Amrita has been visiting faculty at Ashoka University since 2021 where she teaches semester length courses.

Mona Jain, MD is a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York City. She is also on faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where she interrogates how the social unconscious impacts the individual psyche. This focus also informs her leadership of the United Nations Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association, an NGO in Consultative Status to the Economic and Social Council of the UN. Her most recent paper, “Revisiting the Indian Oedipus: The Phallus is (Also) Female,” will be published in the upcoming special issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry: Beyond the Model Minority: Psychic Lives and Work of Asian American Clinicians.

Christina Megill completed her 4 year psychoanalytic training at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in NYC where she currently teaches.  She completed a Fellowship at the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis and still working on a project attempting to establish psychoanalytic supervision with community mental healthcare workers. She is also a research therapist for international psychedelic clinical trials.  Prior to analytic training she worked as a Physician Assistant in HIV, Community Medicine, and research. This work spanned more than 20 years with Housing Works, The Floating Hospital, Harlem United and Weill Cornell Medical College’s HIV Clinical Trials Unit focusing in HIV and HPV medicine, education, and research. She is in private practice in NYC.