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At age 7,
Pratyusha Tummala-Nara emigrated from India to the United
States with her family leaving behind a country rife with political
tensions. Her struggles to adjust to life as a racial and ethnic
minority led her to pursue a PhD in psychology ftom Michigan
‘State University. For the pat 20 years, she has worked as acl |
nician, integrating psjchoanaltic, multicultural and feminist
perspectives into her practice, which focuses on helping, immigrant
and ethnic-minority clients deal with acculturation, disrimination
and trauma. Her work draws onthe ideas of the founder of psy- |
choanalyss, Sigmund Freud, to explore how her clients’ thoughts
and feelings that may lie outside awareness affect their socal cul-
tural and politcal experiences. § As controversial as Feud may be,
people often forget that he and his colleagues opened free clinics
throughout Europe so that people of any class could ave acess
to psychotherapy, says Tummala-Narra, who ie also a professor of
counseling developmental and educational psychology at Boston
College. "When psychoanalysis came to the United States in the
carly 1900s it developed into a form of treatment that seemed to
only be accesible tothe middle and upper-middle clases, which
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