डॉ. बी. आर. अम्बेडकर विश्‍वविद्यालय दिल्ली
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi
Established by The Government of NCT of Delhi

Honey Oberoi Vahali is a psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi, India. She has a particular interest in understanding the historical roots of emotional suffering and forging bridges between psychoanalysis, visions of social justice and spiritual worldviews, especially Buddhism and related streams of compassion and non-violence. Her work in psychoanalysis foregrounds the psyche as situated within historical, political and cultural roots with special efforts to empathetically engage with the psychological struggles of human lives at socio-political margins. It has been her endeavour to conceptualize a model of psychoanalytical psychotherapy in the Indian context that is deep-going and yet freely accessible to those in need. She has advocated for a rethinking of the ethics of mental health, especially psychoanalytical practice. She has been working to evolve innovative training possibilities of psychodynamic psychotherapists in the Indian context. She considers psychotherapy as a deep commune between two psyches engaged in an intimate and extended dialogue. At another level, she also believes that psychoanalysis has a radical and subversive potential for political thinking and social justice and transformation. She is one of the first to conceptualise the psychosocial perspective in the Indian context. Her work has also been of rethinking the theory and practice of academic psychology in the context of Higher Education.  She has been the founding Director of the Centre of Psychotherapy and Clinical Research, AUD, a centre in a university context dedicated to a vision of psychoanalytical work along the lines of social and emotional justice. A large part of her effort has been to bridge critical and humane visions of higher education. As a teacher, she believes that teaching is an intense dialogical and relational encounter, a process that can potentially transform the being of the teacher as well as of her students. Reflecting on the above is her edited volume, A Song Called Teaching: Ebbs and Flows of Experiential and Empathetic Pedagogies, Aakar Books, 2019. She has also written extensively on psychoanalysis, psychotherapy as well as mental health in the context of higher education. Honey Oberoi Vahali has been closely associated with the movement of the struggling people of Tibet for the last twenty-five years. Her book Lives in Exile: Exploring the Inner World of Tibetan Refugees (2009, 2021 Routledge) is an exposition detailing the on-going struggle of three generations of Tibetans living in India and also of Tibetan torture survivors. In this work she had tried to see how culture and psyche are interrelated and how Buddhism was experienced as a creative force in the mitigation of the refugee’s trauma. Her book Lives in Exile: Exploring the Inner World of Tibetan Refugees (2009, Routledge) is an exposition to this effect. She works with narratives, life histories and psychobiographies. From 2012 to 2015 she was the Dean of the School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi. She can be reached at honey@aud.ac.in ; honey.vahali@gmail.com

Academic and Professional Qualifications:

• Trained as Psychoanalyst- 2016, International psychoanalytic Association, London and Indian Psychoanalytical Association, Kolkata, India 
• PhD – Department of Psychology University of Delhi, 2002
• MPhil in Medical and Social Psychology- National Institute of Mental health and Neuro Science, Bangalore, -1993
• MA in Psychology- Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, H.P. 1990
• BA (Hons) in English- St Bede’s College, Himachal Pradesh University- 1988

Academic Appointments:

• Professor of Psychology at the School of Human Studies, Dr B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi- 2010 to continuing presently
• Associate Professor- Department of Psychology, University of Delhi- 2006- 2010
• Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Delhi- 1996-2006
• Research Associate, Department of Psychology, University of Delhi- 1993-1996

Administrative Appointments:

• Director, Centre of Psychotherapy and Clinical Research, Dr B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi- 2013-2020 and 2022 to presently continuing
• Dean School of Human Studies, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi 2012-2015
• Deputy Proctor- University of Delhi, 2000-2005

Professional Appointments:

• Member, International Psychoanalytical Association Committee, IPA in the Humanitarian Field (2021 onwards to continuing).
• Member of core committee for creating Learning Outcome Based Curriculum Framework for UG curriculum in Psychology (2018 onwards), University Grants Commission. , Delhi, India
• Subject Expert for reviewing UGC MOOC courses in Psychology, Swayam Platform  2020 onwards 
• Member, Advisory Board, Centre of Psychoanalytic Studies, Unviersity of Delhi 2005 to 2010
• Member, Advisory Board, Psychoanalytic Series on Childhood and Youth, New York
• Invited Member, Subcommittee of the American Psychoanalytic Society on Psychoanalysis in Community Context  2017 onward
• Member, International Psychoanalytical Association
• Member, Indian psychoanalytical Society
• Member, Executive council and Fellow, Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists.
• Member, Indian Association of Family Therapy.
• Member, Psychological Foundations, Delhi.
• Member, Indian Association of Women’s Studies.
• Member, Social Studies Board, N.C.E.R.T., Delhi.
• Fellow, Indian Association of Clinical psychologists
• Member, Board of Management, Ambedkar University Delhi, 2017-2020
• Member, Academic Council and Board of Management, Ambedkar University Delhi, 2011- 2020.
• On the Panel of Experts, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore, India, 2016-2018
• Member, Research Advisory Committee, Department of Psychology, University of Himachal Pradesh, India, 2015-2018
• Member, Appeals committee for the prevention of sexual harassment, AUD 2016 onward
• Member, MPhil Committee, Clinical psychology programme at IHBAS, Delhi 2006-2011.
• Advisory Board Member, Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists, 2008-2011
• Advisory Board Member, Snehi Foundation, 2007-2010
• Advisory Board Member, Centre of Psychoanalytic Studies, Delhi University, 2005-2008
• Advisory Editorial Board Member, Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Policy Press, London
• Advisory and Editorial Member of Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology
• On Review Board for Journal of Psychological Studies, India
• On Review Board for Sage Journals in Psychology
• On Review Board for Journal of Feminist Psychology, UK

• Awarded Dalai Lama Studies Fellowship 2021-2022 for research project entitled: "A Gift to 21st Century Humanity:  The Psychopolitical Vision of the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet' by the Foundation of Universal Responsibility.
• Nehru Memorial Fellowship, Teen Murti 1998-2000.
• M.V. Govindaswamy Memorial Award for Clinical Psychology, 1993.
• Awarded Gold Medals for securing Ist position in the University OF Himachal Pradesh at the level of B.A. Honours (in English) 1988;  MA. in Psychology (1990) and MPhil in Medical and Social Psychology, NIMHANS (1993).
• Awarded National and State Level Scholarships as an Undergraduate & Post-Graduate Student

Books

• Vahali (2021) Lives in Exile: Exploring the Inner World of Tibetan Refugees. (Second Edition) New Delhi, London and US: Routledge, 2009. (over ten reviews have been written on the book from scholars from different countries of the world) ISBN Number: 978-0-415-44606-8
• Vahali (2020) Lives in Exile: Exploring the Inner World of Tibetan Refugees.  London: Routledge, (first published in 2009)
• Vahali, H.O (2019) A Song Called teaching: Ebbs and Flows of Experiential and Empathetic Pedagogies (Edited) Aakar Books: New Delhi . 978-93-5002-590-1

Book Chapters and Research Papers: A selected list

• Vahali Honey Oberoi (2025) In Remembrance of Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024): An Artist of Life. Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol.51 no1-2;  p 126-127 Print ISSN: 0303-2582.
• Vahali Honey Oberoi (2024) Breves reflexiones de una analista india (As psychoanalysis Travels: Brief Reflections of an Indian Psychoanalyst) Rivista De Psicoanalsis 271  273-277 ID: 82978454752
• Vahali, Honey Oberoi (2024)  Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) Dancing to the Rhythms of Empathy and Imagination. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. DOI 10.1080/00207578.2024.2375116   (This obituary has been selected as one amongst the thirteen outstanding and original papers published in all issues of the International Journal of psychoanalysis 2024. It is now being translated into German and published in the German Annual “Internationale Psychoanalyse Band 20”)
• Vahali, Honey Oberoi and Vahali, Dimple (Amreen) Oberoi, (2024) Redreaming the Nation: Embracing Otherness with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet’s politico-spiritual vision. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society Vol 24, issue 4 https://doi.org. 10.1057/s41282-23-00399-0
• Vahali, Honey Oberoi, “Madness and Truth” Life in the Mind of Fire: Psychoanalytic voices to the Challenges of our Times.  (Mente enla Linea de Fuego: Voces psicoanaliticas ante los retos de nuestro tiempo. SchmidtHellerau, Cordelia Erlich-Ginor, Mira(Eds.) ,Publication of the International Psychoanalytic Society 2023.  The book, of which the above mentioned essay is a part, has received the 2024 Gradiva Award.
• Vahali, Honey Oberoi. 2022. "Trauma, Despair and Faith: Generational Resonances in Exiled Tibetans" Religions 13, no. 12: 1185. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13121185
• Vahali, Honey Oberoi (2019) Reminiscences and Explorations of a Teacher in Becoming,  in A Song Called Teaching: Ebbs and Flows of Experiential and Empathetic Pedagogies , Aakar Books: Delhi
• Vahali, Honey Oberoi (2019) Explorations and reflections: on envisioning the psychosocial clinical programmes at the School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi, India Journal of Psychosocial Studies • vol 12 • nos 1-2 • 129–144 • © Policy Press Online ISSN 1478-6737 • https://doi.org/10.1332/147867319X15608718110989https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/jps/12/1-2/article-p129.xml
• Vahali H.O. and Vahali. D.O. (2019) The (Im)possible Embrace: A Search for Non-violent Possibilities in the Aftermath of Violent Uprootedness (co-authored with Diamond Oberoi Vahali) in Psychology and DevelopingSocieties. (p.1-23)in.sagepub.com/journals-permissions-india, DOI:10.1177/0971333618819154 journals.sagepub.com/home/pds,
• Vahali, Honey Oberoi (2018) Through Alleys and “Innerscapes”: The City and the Psyche in THAAP Journal, (Pakistan, Lahore)
• Vahali, Honey Oberoi (2017) Contributed a chapter on the Biography and Works of Ashis Nandy in the book, Eminent Indian Psychologists: Hundred Years of Psychology in India (Ed Braj Bhushan)- Sage:

Publications.

• Vahali, Honey Oberoi (2017) Review of Creating Heaven on Earth: The Psychology of Experiencing Immortality in Everyday Life, by Paul Marcus. London: Karnac Books, 2015.” International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies.
• Vahali, Honey Oberoi (2015) “Could I Become Human by Engaging with your Un(der)stated Life?  Struggles from a Psychoanalytical Perspective on Listening to the Mentally Ill Poor Person and the Homeless Poor”. Psychology and Developing Society. 272 (2) Sage Publications. p. 211-233
• Vahali, Honey Oberoi. (2014) “Building Broken Castles: Explorations in Play Therapy with a Sexually Abused Child”, Journal of The Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Psychology 2014 10(2)P. 132-144 (Co-authored with Meghna Singhal)
• Vahali, Honey Oberoi (2013) “From Wild Grasslands to Nurtured Gardens:  The inward journey in Buddhism, Psychoanalysis and Engaged Social Activism”. Chapter contributed to the volume of Culture and Psychoanalysis. Indian Council of Philosophical Research.
• Vahali, Honey Oberoi. (2011), Landscaping a perspective: India and the Psychoanalytic Vista.  In ( Ed. Girishwar Misra) Psychology in India, Volume 4: Theoretical and Methodological Developments.  Indian Council of Social Science Review.  Pearson: New Delhi. pp. 1-99. 
• Vahali, Honey Oberoi (2008) “Rethinking Tibet”. Economic and Political Weekly. May,
• Vahali Honey Oberoi (2003) “From a researcher’s notebook: scattered thoughts on Research and Researching”, Psychological Studies, 49.
• Vahali, Honey Oberoi (2002) “From Affirming Silence to Finding Voice: Psychology and the Circle of Human Protest,” Psychological Studies, 47, 4-10
• Vahali, Honey Oberoi (2002) “Explorations in Play Therapy with Emotionally Disturbed Children,” Journal of Psychological Researches,46, 40-44 (with Renuka Dutta).
• Vahali, Honey Oberoi (2002)“ The Spiritual Potential in the Psychoanalytical Terrain: The Use of the Analyst,” The Journal, 4.
• Vahali, Honey Oberoi (1999) “Rethinking Refugee Trauma,” The Journal, 3.
• Vahali Honey Oberoi and Vahali Diamond Oberoi (1995) “Voices from the Dark Cellar: A Psychological Exploration into Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground,” Punjab University Research Bulletin, 35,  
• Vahali Honey Oberoi (1996) “Interventions with Hyperactive Boys in the School Setting” NIMHANS JOURNAL, 16,21-30.
• Vahali Honey Oberoi (1995) “Mental Illness: The Law and Institutionalization” in the Monograph “ The Dance of Madness,” Edited by K.Shirali. Himachal Pradesh: ASK Publishers.(Co-authored)

Popular writings:

• Interview  for LSR Magazine, University of Delhi,  on Mental Health and Humane Classrooms, Aug 2021 https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1tu5BGxFZ2kKgQldZfKX_0IU8MOhPnftf
• A listening Classroom: Editorial in the Indian Express, 20^th November 2020  https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/aishwarya-reddy-suicide-lady-shri-ram-college-mental-health-students-7056514
• Madness and Truth: A Reflection on the World Mental Health Day 2020  https://zubaanekhamoshi.wordpress.com/2020/10/09/madness-and-truth
• Psychosocial Challenges in the Midst of the Coronavirus, India Forum May,2020/https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/psychosocial-challenges-midst-coronavirus

Invited Talks, Lectures, Conferences:

KEY NOTE ADDRESSES AND PLENARY PRESENTATIONS: A Selected List

•    Keynote address Becoming Human: Psychological Reflections on Compassion and Empathy in the inaugural session,"Neuroscience of Mental Experience and Psychological Perspectives of Compassion and Altruism”: Neuroscience and Psychology (Series – X)  Sunday, 23^rd November, 2025 at Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi in celebration of 2025 as the “Year of Compassion” and in commemoration of the (Ghoton) 90th Birth Anniversary of His Holiness the Great 14th Dalai Lama.
• The Aesthetic Weave: Psychotherapy as Vocation, Plenary Address at Amity University, 3^rd International Conference of the Clinical Psychology Society of India, Integrating Diversity in Comprehensive Clinical Psychology Practice: Perspectives and Challenges 6to 8^th Nov 2025, Amity University , Noida, India  
• On the Mentor Mentee Relationship in Mentor-Mentee Relationship and Learning Outcomes : educational and psychological Dimensions. 19^th September 2025, Ambedkar University Delhi
• The Self of the Therapist. Sanjhi Samaj. IIC, Delhi 24.08.2025
• The Future of Mental Health Education and Training: Addressing Gaps, Emerging Practices and Innovative Trends at National Conference of Psychology: Bridging Theory and Practice-Innovations in Mental Health, Department of Psychology, Flame University, Pune, 28-29^th March 2025
• Vahali Honey Oberoi and Varvan Sverre  (2025) conducted the second teaching module in the International Psychoanalytic Associations course called “Returning to where we came from: (re) widening the scope of psychoanalysis and society”. Candidates in psychoanalytic training from across the world joined the classes. The title of her presentation was: “Psychoanalyst as Witness and Co-traveller facilitating Journeys towards Survival in Refugees. 01.02. 2025
• To feel to think, and to be: The promise of Aagahii in a landscape of Critical knowledge.   Keynote and Inaugural address of Aagahii, Centre for Psychotherapy Research and Training, Jindal School of Psychology and Counselling, O. P Jindal University. Sonepat 29^th October 2024.
• The Challenges of Empathy and Affirmative Action in Higher Education. BMU Munjal Univeristy, Mannesar, Haryana, 31^st January 2024
• A Thinker of the 'And': Looking Behind to Walk Ahead with Girindrasekhar Bose. Delivered the Girindrasekhar Bose Memorial Lecture at Adamas University , 1^st oct 2023.
• Un(sensed) Emotional Reverberations of Young Lives: Mental Health and Higher Education in India. Delivered keynote address at Jawahar Lal Nehru University, Delhi on 08.10. 2023 on the occasion of World Mental Health Day 2023. 
• Peace in Oneself, Peace in the World: On the Psychodynamics of non-violent Visionaries Plenary address at the 2^nd International Conference on Peace Psychology, “A Journey to Peace: Within Self and Beyond, 11-12 May 2023, Department of Psychology, West Bengal State University Kolkata .
• January 2023 Discussant and Chair presentation by Madhavi Menon on Language and Pronouns,  In ‘Queerness, Women and Psychoanalysis: In the Clinic, In Culture, In Film’ Organised by COWAP Asia Pacific on 3rd January, 2023 at IIC, New Delhi 
• Peace and Transformation: Contributions of the XIV Dalai Lama’s visionary philosophy.  School of Liberal Studies, MIT, World Peace University, Pune series 20^th Oct 2022
• Buddhism and Psychoanalysis: A Dialogue (with Rajeev Mehrotra) in the series, Healing Our Minds, Foundation of Universal Responsibility,  February 2022https://youtu.be/TbLV8jmj6sI
• Destructive Authoritarianism within the Embrace of Non-violent Activism." 18^th Sept 2021 in the series Racism, Discrimination and Othering: Perspectives from around the world. William Alanson White Institute, New York,  "  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kjcf6FW_Y8
• Singing to the tune of feminine desire: Crucial strands from the melody of mother-daughter relationship. Second COWAP Conference (International Psychoanalytic Conference), Kolkata 22 and 23^rd  Nov 2019.
• Beyond Binaries: the Coexistence of Possibilities. Girindrasekhar Bose Memorial Lecture, Shyama Prasad Mukerji College, University of Delhi, 31^st July 2019 
• Listening to Un(der)stated Lives: A Mediation on Engagement with Social Suffering, Presentation at International Conference on Health and Wellbeing. Department of Psychology, Jamia Milia Islamia University , Delhi, 12 March 2019 
• Psychic Hunger: Lurkings for Home, keynote address at the conference on "Global Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in Postcolonial Literature, Department of Literature. Oxford University, United Kingdom, June 25^th 2018
• Trauma of Exile: The Generational Striving of Exiled Tibetans in International Conference on Trauma and Reconciliation: To Remember or Forget, IIC Delhi 22-24th March 2018 (Geothe Institute and Max Muller Bhawan Delhi.
• Delivered the Fourth Freud Memorial Lecture , “Re-dreaming Freud’s interrupted Dream: Psychoanalysis as a Vocation” 10^th May 2017, India International Centre, Delhi
• “Using Psychoanalytical Concepts in the Therapy Room”. National Institute of       Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore, India, 30-31^st January 2017
• “Searching for Myself,  Mother I rediscovered you: A psychoanalytic Reflection on the Mother-Daughter Relationship” at the 4^th International Indo-Japanese Psychoanalytic Conference, January 5-7^th 2017 at IIC, Delhi organized by the Centre of Psychotherapy and Clinical Research and the Japanese Psychoanalytic Society.  
• Key Note address in the International Conference “Psychology at the Edges”,             organized by Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi, January 24^th  2015
• Plenary session at the First Annual Indian conference of psychoanalysis (19^th and 20^th Dec 2013), organized by Fortis Hospital and SHS, AUD. “From Wild grasslands to nurtured gardens: The inward journey in Psychoanalysis, Buddhism and Engaged Social Activism”.
• Plenary speaker at the conference “Vicissitudes of Violence: An interdisciplinary Conference on Conflict and Peace”, I.P College, January 2012.
• “Mind, meditation and Buddhism”, March 2013, Plenary Note at Tibet House, IIC Delhi.

INVITED PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS (a selected list)

• Listening Models in Psychotherapy.  Advanced Diploma in Trauma-Informed Psychosocial Guidance and Counseling Unit -1 Psyche and Practice (Psychosocial Counseling Skills) Counseling Unit Hans Raj College, Delhi University, August 2^nd 2025.
• Self-Reflection in Counselling and Psychotherapy.  Lecture series for Snehi , January 27^th 2025
• From evacuating difference to embracing diversity presentation at Containing Diversity: Bridging Differences, 4^th International Asia Pacific Psychoanalytic Conference, January 4-6 2023 
• The Foundational Matrix: Ethics in Research  presented in workshop on Advanced Qualitative Research Methods, National Academy of Psychology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, October 31  2021
• "A Gift to 21st Century Humanity: The Psychopolitical Vision of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet". Presentation on 23rd Oct 2021, The Foundation of Universal Responsibility of HHDL.
• Coping in Challenging Times”, March 24th, Foundation for Universal Responsibility
• Teletherapy: The Future of Mental Health Care. On the occasion of the World Mental health Day 2020 organized by Schizophrenia Awareness Association, Pune, 10.10.2020  https://www.facebook.com/114531107049374/videos/856045191885243
• Ethics: An Ever Evolving Exploration in the webinar on What is Ethical Research organized by the Research and Consultancy Division and The Centre for Research Methods, AUD , December 12^th 2020, AUD. https://youtu.be/2vPI1Y6UR4U
• Chairperson, Convenor key speaker of the Panel ‘Mental Health and Research’. Workshop in Shodhutsav-AUD Research Festival, Ambedkar University Delhi, Kashmere Gate Campus, January 17.
• Inaugural session at UGC sponsored National Seminar on ‘The Unconscious Communication in Psychoanalysis’. Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi. January 20, 2020.
• Trauma, Memory and the Psyche: The Shadowed Existence of Refugees. Tarikh. Miranda House, 19^th February 2020
• Apprehending the Unconscious in Psychoanalytic Communication: Research Colloquium, Oct 31^st 2019, Department of Psychology, University of Delhi 
• “Voices from the Dark Cellar: The Psychological Struggles and Political Resistance of Tibetan Women survivors of torture and sexual violence”, Plenary presentation at the conference Women in Conflict Zones, S.V. Government College, Ghumarwin, H.P. University, 11 and 12^th March 2017 
• “Research in Counseling and Psychotherapy”, Faculty Development Programme, on teaching and Research Innovations in Psychology at I.P College, University of Delhi, March 2017
•  “Forgotten, Interrupted and Undreamt Dreams: Psychoanalysis and visions for Social Justice”, presented at the annual conference of Psychoanalysis for the Study of Culture and Society, Rutgers University, New Jersey, Oct 13-15^th 2016
• Resource person for two day consultative meeting on “Sense of Agency in contexts of Socio-economic Deprivation” with Pradan August 24^th to 26^th 2016  at Zorba the Buddha
• “Understanding Suicide: A Psychosocial Perspective” Invited as resource person at Sikkim University, Sikkim, July 2015
• “Reimagining Psychology along the Psychosocial clinical axis” at the Centenary conference of Psychology: A International Affair”, Calcutta University, 8th-11Oct 2015.
• Invited resource person – “the place of counseling and psychotherapy in University context” - J.N. U. Oct 2015.
•  “Could I become Human by engaging with your under(stated) life”, invited paper at the National conference on Psychology and Social Exclusion, Allahabad Univeristy, 2014
• Mental Health and emotional concerns in Education: A session with School teachers, Invited at C.I.E 2013.
• Invited lecture at Tibet: A Historical analysis of Sino-Tibetan relations, March 2013, Organized by Tibet House, IIC, New Delhi
• Civilization and its Discontents, Pondicherry Nov 2012, Organized by Sahetya Akademy 
• Resource person for workshop on counseling-Gargi College, Delhi University, Nov 2013.
• “Psychoanalytic Responses to emotional pain and social suffering: Chairperson and symposium organizer at the NAOP conference held at New Delhi, J.N.U. 12-15^th Dec, 2010
• “Dreaming, living and unconscious creativity”, invited presentation presented at the National conference on Dream Catchers: Literature, creativity and psychoanalysis at Udaipur, Organized by Sahitya Akacedmi, 9^th to 12^th Dec 2010
• “Psychoanalysis and Religion” invited presentation at the round table symposium on Religion and Politics at J.N.U. School of Social Sciences. 16^th Nov 2010
• “Fragmentation to Wholism: Transformations of  Hate”. Paper presented during the International conference on Hate, Violence and Trauma, organized by the I.C.C.R. and Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies. 13^th and 14^th Sept. 2008.
• “From Conquering Destiny to co-existing with Psychic fate: Re-viewing Oedipus Rex and Lal Pathar”. Paper presented at the International Conference on Cinema and Psyche. Christ University, Bangalore, Feb, 2008.
• Exiled at Home: Estranged in Exile: The Continuing Sojourn of Young Tibetan Arrivals.” Invited paper presented at the International workshop on Embodied practices, Identity and the Nation State, Department of Sociology University of Delhi, March 2007.
• “Torture, Trauma and collective identity: The Dalai Lama’s position on healing the Tibetan Self through forgiveness.” Invited paper presented at the second International conference on Wounded History and Social Forgiveness, at D.C.R.C. University of Delhi. 2007
• “Mental Health Issues of Asian Diasporic Women: Reflections from Psychotherapy”, organized by the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Delhi. January. 2006. 
• One of the resource persons for discussion and workshop on “Mental health and Gender issues” in an international forum on Gender Network. The workshop was held at The Social Science Trust, Delhi in February 2004.
• One of the Resource Persons for Discussion & Workshop on “ Recounting Survivor Lives: On the process of listening to Torture Testimonies” with a Human Rights Group involved with the Tibet issue, at Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh.
• “Existential concerns in Psychotherapeutic practice” at Psychological Foundations, Delhi, October 2004.
• Spirituality and Psychotherapy” Presented in a Seminar on “Ancient Futures:     Looking Backwards to Moving Ahead” Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, February 2002.
• “A Community in Flux: The Predicament of the Tibetan Self ” Talk given at the Central Institute of Education, Delhi. October 2001.
• “Loss & Creativity: The Paradox of Exile” at Psychological Foundations. New Delhi, September 2001.
• “Violence & Collective Rage” at the Family Therapy Association, New Delhi, May 2001
• “Reflections on the works of Sudhir Kakar” in National Seminar on “Culture & Psychology” Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi, 1998.
• “Children’s Mental Health: A Futuristic Challenge” presented at the 4^th Annual Conference of the Indian Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health, 1995, AIIMS, New Delhi.

Organizer of International and National Conferences, Seminars and Workshops

• Joint Organizer of the Fifth International Psychoanalytic Conference, Psychoanalytic Exploration of Darkness in the Clinic and Culture: An Indo Italian Conversation, January 13-15, 2018, IIC, Delhi.
• Joint Organizer of the Fourth International Psychoanalytic Conference, The Dyad Across the Life Cycle: An Indo-Japanese Dialogue, 6^th to 8^th January 2017, CPCR and Japan Psychoanalytic Society
• Joint organizer of the Third International Psychoanalytic Conference, An Invitation to Engaging with the Other: An Indo Iranian Dialogue, 5-7 February 2016, CPCR and The Freudian Group of Tehran 
• Joint organizer of the Second Annual Psychoanalytic Conference, The Paternal in Psychoanalysis, January, 2015
• Joint organizer of the first Indo- German Dialogue: A Series of Clinical Explorations, October 2014 
• Joint organizer of the International Conference on Hate, Violence and Trauma organized by the ICCR and the Centre for the Psychoanalytic studies, University of Delhi, 2008.
• Joint organizer of the Psychoanalytic Clinical Series with Horst Kachele, Centre of Psychoanalytic Studies, Delhi University, 2007
• Organized Awaaz , A series of annual reflections at the Centre of psychotherapy and Clinical Research, AUD on the occasion of the World Mental health Day at Dr. B.R.Ambedkar University Delhi since 2013 onwards till presently and continuing

Resource person for International and national level workshops and training programmes

• Listening Models in Psychotherapy.  Advanced Diploma in Trauma-Informed Psychosocial Guidance and Counseling Unit -1 Psyche and Practice (Psychosocial Counseling Skills) Counseling Unit Hans Raj College, Delhi University, August 2^nd 2025.
• Self-Reflection in Counselling and Psychotherapy.  Lecture series for Snehi , January 27^th 2025
• “From evacuating difference to embracing diversity” invited presentation at Containing Diversity: Bridging Differences, 4^th International Asia Pacific Psychoanalytic Conference, January 4-6 2023 
• The Foundational Matrix: Ethics in Research  presented in workshop on Advanced Qualitative Research Methods, National Academy of Psychology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, October 31  2021
• "A Gift to 21st Century Humanity: The Psychopolitical Vision of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet". Presentation on 23rd Oct 2021, The Foundation of Universal Responsibility of HHDL. 
• Coping in Challenging Times”, March 24th, Foundation for Universal Responsibility
• Teletherapy: The Future of Mental Health Care. On the occasion of the World Mental health Day 2020 organized by Schizophrenia Awareness Association, Pune, 10.10.2020           https://www.facebook.com/114531107049374/videos/856045191885243
• Ethics: An Ever Evolving Exploration in the webinar on What is Ethical Research organized by the Research and Consultancy Division and The Centre for Research Methods, AUD , December 12^th 2020, AUD. https://youtu.be/2vPI1Y6UR4U
• Chairperson, Convenor key speaker of the Panel ‘Mental Health and Research’. Workshop in Shodhutsav-AUD Research Festival, Ambedkar University Delhi, Kashmere Gate Campus, January 17.
• Inaugural session at UGC sponsored National Seminar on ‘The Unconscious Communication in Psychoanalysis’. Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi. January 20, 2020
• Trauma, Memory and the Psyche: The Shadowed Existence of Refugees. Tarikh. Miranda House, 19^th February 2020
• Apprehending the Unconscious in Psychoanalytic Communication: Research Colloquium, Oct 31^st 2019, Department of Psychology, University of Delhi 
• “Voices from the Dark Cellar: The Psychological Struggles and Political Resistance of Tibetan Women survivors of torture and sexual violence”, Plenary presentation at the conference Women in Conflict Zones, S.V. Government College, Ghumarwin, H.P. University, 11 and 12^th March 2017 
• “Research in Counseling and Psychotherapy”, Faculty Development Programme, on teaching and Research Innovations in Psychology at I.P College, University of Delhi, March 2017
•  “Forgotten, Interrupted and Undreamt Dreams: Psychoanalysis and visions for Social Justice”, presented at the annual conference of Psychoanalysis for the Study of Culture and Society, Rutgers University, New Jersey, Oct 13-15^th 2016
• Resource person for two day consultative meeting on “Sense of Agency in contexts of Socio-economic Deprivation” with Pradan August 24^th to 26^th 2016  at Zorba the Buddha
• “Understanding Suicide: A Psychosocial Perspective” Invited as resource person at Sikkim University, Sikkim, July 2015
• “Reimagining Psychology along the Psychosocial clinical axis” at the Centenary conference of Psychology: A International Affair”, Calcutta University, 8th-11Oct 2015.
• Invited resource person – “the place of counseling and psychotherapy in University context” - J.N. U. Oct 2015.
• “Could I become Human by engaging with your under(stated) life”, invited paper at the National conference on Psychology and Social Exclusion, Allahabad Univeristy, 2014
• Mental Health and emotional concerns in Education: A session with School teachers, Invited at C.I.E 2013.
• Invited lecture at Tibet: A Historical analysis of Sino-Tibetan relations, March 2013, Organized by Tibet House, IIC, New Delhi
• Civilization and its Discontents, Pondicherry Nov 2012, Organized by Sahetya Akademy  
• Resource person for workshop on counseling-Gargi College, Delhi University, Nov 2013.
• “Psychoanalytic Responses to emotional pain and social suffering: Chairperson and symposium organizer at the NAOP conference held at New Delhi, J.N.U. 12-15^th Dec, 2010
• “Dreaming, living and unconscious creativity”, invited presentation presented at the National conference on Dream Catchers: Literature, creativity and psychoanalysis at Udaipur, Organized by Sahitya Akacedmi, 9^th to 12^th Dec 2010
• “Psychoanalysis and Religion” invited presentation at the round table symposium on Religion and Politics at J.N.U. School of Social Sciences. 16^th Nov 2010
• “Fragmentation to Wholism: Transformations of  Hate”. Paper presented during the International conference on Hate, Violence and Trauma, organized by the I.C.C.R. and Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies. 13^th and 14^th Sept. 2008.
• “From Conquering Destiny to co-existing with Psychic fate: Re-viewing Oedipus Rex and Lal Pathar”. Paper presented at the International Conference on Cinema and Psyche. Christ University, Bangalore, Feb, 2008.
• Exiled at Home: Estranged in Exile: The Continuing Sojourn of Young Tibetan Arrivals.” Invited paper presented at the International workshop on Embodied practices, Identity and the Nation State, Department of Sociology University of Delhi, March 2007.
• “Torture, Trauma and collective identity: The Dalai Lama’s position on healing the Tibetan Self through forgiveness.” Invited paper presented at the second International conference on Wounded History and Social Forgiveness, at D.C.R.C. University of Delhi. 2007
• “Mental Health Issues of Asian Diasporic Women: Reflections from Psychotherapy”, organized by the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Delhi. January. 2006. 
• One of the resource persons for discussion and workshop on “Mental health and Gender issues” in an international forum on Gender Network. The workshop was held at The Social Science Trust, Delhi in February 2004.
• One of the Resource Persons for Discussion & Workshop on “ Recounting Survivor Lives: On the process of listening to Torture Testimonies” with a Human Rights Group involved with the Tibet issue, at Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh.
• “Existential concerns in Psychotherapeutic practice” at Psychological Foundations, Delhi, October 2004.
• Spirituality and Psychotherapy” Presented in a Seminar on “Ancient Futures:     Looking Backwards to Moving Ahead” Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, February 2002.
• A Community in Flux: The Predicament of the Tibetan Self ” Talk given at the Central Institute of Education, Delhi. October 2001.
• “Loss & Creativity: The Paradox of Exile” at Psychological Foundations. New Delhi, September 2001.
• “Violence & Collective Rage” at the Family Therapy Association, New Delhi, May 2001
• “Reflections on the works of Sudhir Kakar” in National Seminar on “Culture & Psychology” Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi, 1998.
• “Children’s Mental Health: A Futuristic Challenge” presented at the 4^th Annual Conference of the Indian Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health, 1995, AIIMS, New Delhi