In this episode, we speak with Zehra Maidi, a professional trained in psychoanalytic therapy about the various old and new psychodynamic techniques that have contributed to a much more inclusive couch.
Psychodynamic therapy or Psychoanalytic therapy is one of the oldest instruments of change that has contributed to a greater understanding of a person’s conflicts by stressing the unconscious processes. We speak with Zehra Maidi, a professional trained in psychoanalytic therapy about the various old and new psychodynamic techniques that have contributed to a much more inclusive couch.
Zehra Mehdi is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Religion, Columbia University working at the intersections of religion, politics, and psychoanalysis. Her doctoral dissertation studies how Muslims as persecuted religious minorities in India draw upon religion to perform the psychic work of verbalizing trauma, mourning losses, as well as staging political protest. Her research interests are political psychology, religious minorities and nationalism, trauma and violence, gender theory, psychoanalytic anthropology, and Partition literature. She has written articles in psychoanalytic journals on Islamophobia and secular psychoanalysis in India and contributed chapters in edited volumes on Winnicott and political theory, psychoanalysis and literature, and religious-political identities in the clinic. Her forthcoming articles are on psychoanalysis and nationalism in India, listening to injustice, and the need for political psychoanalytic anthropology.