Amrita NarayananAmrita Narayanan Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private
practice. Amrita read history and French at Middlebury College, Vermont, as
an undergraduate, and earned her doctorate in clinical psychology in 2007,
fromthe Stanford University Psy.D. consortium, California. Following this,
she trained as a psychoanalyst via the Indian Psychoanalytical Society. Amrita's
writing has appeared in academic journals such as Psychodynamic Practice and
Psychoanalytic Review; newspapers such as The Hindu and The Indian Express;
and popular press periodicals such as Outlook, Open Magazine, and India Today.
Her most recent work is as editor of The Parrots of Desire: 3000 years of Erotica
in India (Aleph Book Company, 2018) a collection of poems, short prose and
fiction in translation from Indian languages, linked by an introductory essay on
the central themes in Indian erotic literature.