Centering Psychoanalysis in Difference and Dialogue – Interview with Pratyusha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D.

Professor of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at Boston College. Her research and scholarship focus on immigration, trauma, and culturally informed psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She is also a clinical psychologist in Independent Practice. Dr. Tummala-Narra is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and a Consulting Editor of the American Psychologist. She is a member of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis, initiated by the American Psychoanalytic Association, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN). She is the author of Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy (2016), the editor of Trauma and Racial Minority Immigrants: Turmoil, Uncertainty, and Resistance (2021), and co-author of Applying Multiculturalism: An Ecological Approach to the Multicultural Guidelines (2023), all published by the American Psychological Association Books. Dr. Tummala-Narra is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including being listed among the top 2% of Highly-Cited Scholars Worldwide (Stanford University Report).