The group analtic psychotherapy training in Bengaluru, India, is sustained through fees and donations.
All monies raised through these lectures are treated as donations and handed over to the registered charity, 'Group Analysis India' (Charity Number: 1192636)
All monies raised through these lectures are treated as donations and handed over to the registered charity, 'Group Analysis India' (Charity Number: 1192636)
Fund Raising
We are only able to sustain the group analytic training programme in India, through fund raising here in the UK for several reasons.
First and foremost, the fees being charged to the Indian candidates, which although considerable from an Indian perspective, are unable to meet the costs of the programme.
Second, even if we were able to raise sufficient money in India through whatever means, the Indian Government prohibits the payment of foreign professionals, particularly by charities like HNI (the institution that is hosting our training in Bengaluru).
It is for this reason that we have to raise funds outside of India.
To this end we have started the charity Group Analysis India (Charity Number 1192636) , the function of which is to raise funds to pay the costs of teachers, supervisors and group therapists.
Many colleagues and well wishers have supported us through one-off or regular monthly donations - for which we are very grateful. However, there continues to be a considerable shortfall.
This event, and others like it, are in the service of this end.
Further details of the training can be found here
www.groupanalysisindia.com
If you would like to make further one-off or regular donations, please visit our website or contact us.
We are only able to sustain the group analytic training programme in India, through fund raising here in the UK for several reasons.
First and foremost, the fees being charged to the Indian candidates, which although considerable from an Indian perspective, are unable to meet the costs of the programme.
Second, even if we were able to raise sufficient money in India through whatever means, the Indian Government prohibits the payment of foreign professionals, particularly by charities like HNI (the institution that is hosting our training in Bengaluru).
It is for this reason that we have to raise funds outside of India.
To this end we have started the charity Group Analysis India (Charity Number 1192636) , the function of which is to raise funds to pay the costs of teachers, supervisors and group therapists.
Many colleagues and well wishers have supported us through one-off or regular monthly donations - for which we are very grateful. However, there continues to be a considerable shortfall.
This event, and others like it, are in the service of this end.
Further details of the training can be found here
www.groupanalysisindia.com
If you would like to make further one-off or regular donations, please visit our website or contact us.
Michael O’Loughlin
Can psychoanalysis speak truth to power? Imagining a radical role for
psychoanalysis in troubling times
Fund Raising Zoom Lectures
Abstract: I frequently write autobiographically to interrogate both, my origins and hybridity, as well as the larger sweep of precarity embodied in forced migrations and the travails of individuals struggling to find meaning in systems constructed through neoliberal and neocolonial logics of exclusion and oppression.
In this talk I will use ‘occlusion’ as an organizing concept, to join postcolonial theory, critical psychoanalysis, and psychoanalytic understandings of subject formation, to conceptualize how the subject comes to be; how familial, societal and sociohistorical lineages shape the child; and how psychoanalytic therapy might lift the veil of occlusion and counter the constriction of racial melancholia to facilitate creativity and liberation.
Right now, neoliberal racial-capitalism is being abetted by calls for valorization of whiteness motivated by white supremacist anxiety and a fear of the dark Other. When alterity is negated, and the specter of fascism seeks to obliterate pluralism in thought, psychoanalysis offers a vital lifeline.
Can we grow comfortable with the idea of transgression as a good thing in our analytic institutes and universities? Can we acknowledge the conservative totalizing forces in our analytic institutes that inevitably call forth a disobedient response and what Rolnik (2023) calls an insurrection if we are to realize the revolutionary potential of an address to the unconscious?
Michael O’Loughlin is Professor in the College of Education and Health Sciences and in the Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University, New York.
He has authored, edited or co-edited many books, including (with C. Owens & l. Rothschild), Precarities of 21st century childhoods: Critical explorations of time(s), place(s), and identities (2023).
His latest book (with L. Rothschild & S. Akhtar), Between amnesia and recollection: Environmental, creative and clinical pathways to memory, will be published by Karnac in 2026.
Since 2018 he has been coeditor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. He is also editor of the book series, Psychoanalytic Interventions: Clinical Social, and Cultural Contexts, and co-editor of the book series Critical Childhood & Youth Studies.
He directs the Adelphi Asylum Project and he has a private practice for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis on Long Island, NY.
He was a Visiting Scholar at Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California [PINC] for 2023-2024 and he will teach there again in May 2025. He is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Council
Website: http://michaeloloughlinphd.com/
University profile: https://www.adelphi.edu/faculty/profiles/profile.php?PID=0064
In this talk I will use ‘occlusion’ as an organizing concept, to join postcolonial theory, critical psychoanalysis, and psychoanalytic understandings of subject formation, to conceptualize how the subject comes to be; how familial, societal and sociohistorical lineages shape the child; and how psychoanalytic therapy might lift the veil of occlusion and counter the constriction of racial melancholia to facilitate creativity and liberation.
Right now, neoliberal racial-capitalism is being abetted by calls for valorization of whiteness motivated by white supremacist anxiety and a fear of the dark Other. When alterity is negated, and the specter of fascism seeks to obliterate pluralism in thought, psychoanalysis offers a vital lifeline.
Can we grow comfortable with the idea of transgression as a good thing in our analytic institutes and universities? Can we acknowledge the conservative totalizing forces in our analytic institutes that inevitably call forth a disobedient response and what Rolnik (2023) calls an insurrection if we are to realize the revolutionary potential of an address to the unconscious?
Michael O’Loughlin is Professor in the College of Education and Health Sciences and in the Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University, New York.
He has authored, edited or co-edited many books, including (with C. Owens & l. Rothschild), Precarities of 21st century childhoods: Critical explorations of time(s), place(s), and identities (2023).
His latest book (with L. Rothschild & S. Akhtar), Between amnesia and recollection: Environmental, creative and clinical pathways to memory, will be published by Karnac in 2026.
Since 2018 he has been coeditor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. He is also editor of the book series, Psychoanalytic Interventions: Clinical Social, and Cultural Contexts, and co-editor of the book series Critical Childhood & Youth Studies.
He directs the Adelphi Asylum Project and he has a private practice for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis on Long Island, NY.
He was a Visiting Scholar at Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California [PINC] for 2023-2024 and he will teach there again in May 2025. He is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Council
Website: http://michaeloloughlinphd.com/
University profile: https://www.adelphi.edu/faculty/profiles/profile.php?PID=0064
Saturday, January 24th, 2026
1 pm to 3pm (UK times)
1 pm to 1.05 (Student)
1.05 to 2.00 pm - Michael O'Loughlin
2.00 to 2.30 Small Group discussion
2.30pm to 3 pm - Whole group discussion
Fee: £20 + optional donation
Future Events 2026
March 14 Jhuma Basak Psychoanalyst Calcutta
June 27 Ashish Roy Psychoanalyst New Delhi
March 14 Jhuma Basak Psychoanalyst Calcutta
June 27 Ashish Roy Psychoanalyst New Delhi