Usha Tummala-Narra

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EDUCATION
Ph.D., Michigan State University, Clinical Psychology
M.A., Michigan State University, Clinical Psychology

LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1997-present
State of Michigan, 2005-present

EXPERTISE/INTERESTS
Multicultural psychology, psychological trauma, ethnic and racial discrimination among immigrant communities, race and ethnicity in the psychotherapeutic process.

HONORS/AWARDS
Scholars in Medicine Fellowship, Harvard Medical School
Sonia Smith Diversity Award, Cambridge Health Alliance

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Inman, A.G. & Tummala-Narra, P. (in press). Culturally competent approaches to working with  immigrants and their communities. In J. Cornish, L. Nadkarni, E. Rodolfa, & B. Schreier, (Eds.) Handbook of Multicultural Counseling Competencies.  New York: Wiley.

Tummala-Narra, P. (in press). The immigrant’s real and imagined return home. Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society.

Tummala-Narra, P. (2009). The relevance of a psychoanalytic perspective in exploring religious and spiritual identity in psychotherapy. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 26(1), 83-95.

Tummala-Narra, P. (2009). Contemporary impingements on mothering. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 69, 4-21.

Tummala-Narra, P. (2009). Teaching on diversity: Impasses, enactment, and tolerating the unknown. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 26(3), 322-334.

Tummala-Narra, P. (2008).  Hindu spirituality, female identity and psychoanalytic psychotherapy.  In C.A. Rayburn, L. Comas-Diaz (Eds.), Womansoul: The inner life of women’s spirituality.  New York: Praeger.

Tummala-Narra, P. (2008). Reflections on the relevance of Sigmund Freud’s ideas for modern society.  In J.P. Merlino, M.S. Jacobs, J.A. Kaplan, & K.L. Moritz (Eds.), Freud at 150: Twenty-first century essays on a man of genius.  New York: Jason Aronson.

Tummala-Narra, P. (2007). Skin color and the therapeutic relationship. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 24(2), 255-270.

Harvey, M.R., & Tummala-Narra, P. (2007). Sources and expressions of resiliency in trauma survivors: Ecological theory, multicultural practice.  Binghamton, NY:  The Haworth Press.

Akhtar, S., & Tummala-Narra, P.  (2005). Psychoanalysis in India.  In S. Akhtar (Ed.), Freud along the Ganges. New York: Other Press.