Speaker Bios
Betty P. Teng (she/her), MFA, LCSW is a psychoanalyst and trauma therapist who has worked with survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and childhood molestation at Mount Sinai Beth Israel’s Victims Services Program in Manhattan.
One of the co-authors of the New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, Betty is also contributing essayist to Adam Phillips’s The Cure for Psychoanalysis. A new book she co-edited (with Tom Singer and Jonathan Kopp), titled Mind of State: Conversations on the Psychological Conflicts Stirring U.S. Politics and Society has been recently released by Chiron Publications. It is based on the psycho-political podcast, MIND OF STATE, which she co-founded and co-hosted.
On the faculty of the Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis’s Trauma Studies program and its One Year Program on Psychoanalysis in the Sociopolitical World, Betty currently sees couples and adults in private practice in New York City.
Jyoti M. Rao, LMFT (she/her) is a psychoanalyst and faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. An experienced instructor, she is Guest Faculty (2023-2024) at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; National Faculty at the Florida Psychoanalytic Institute; The Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis and was formerly Core Faculty and Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she also directed the post-graduate training program at a psychodynamic clinic.
Her publications, which address topics at the intersection of psychoanalysis and the social world, have appeared in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association; International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies; Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society; and Parapraxis. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies and is an Editorial Associate of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
She is in private practice in San Francisco.
Kevin Duong (he/him) is a professor at the University of Virginia where he teaches modern thought and intellectual history. His research investigates expressions of revolutionary agency by “the people” in European thought and culture, but his interests extend to queer theory, political violence, the history of the human sciences, colonialism and empire, and the history of the left.
He is the author of The Virtues of Violence: Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France and a contributing editor to Parapraxis. He is currently at work on a book, Freud Against Empire: An Experimental History, which maps how an international cohort of midcentury radicals—Surrealist poets, painters, ethnographers, psychiatrists, and communists in France, Martinique, Cuba, and the United States—deployed psychoanalysis to undermine civilizational and global hierarchies.
He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia and Kingston, New York.