Reflections of Three Decades of Being a South-Asian American Analyst

In this free video, Dr. Aisha Abbasi reflects on her 30 years of experience as a South Asian American psychoanalyst, tracing the personal, clinical, and cultural questions that have shaped her work.

The conversation offers a thoughtful look at what it means to practice psychoanalysis across identity, history, migration, race, culture, and belonging. Dr. Abbasi speaks from the position of a clinician who has spent decades listening deeply — not only to individual psychic life, but to the social and cultural realities that enter the consulting room.

This video reflects the kind of inquiry at the heart of Let’s Talk Psychoanalysis: serious, personal, clinically grounded conversation that keeps psychoanalytic thinking alive in relation to the world we actually inhabit.

Special thanks to the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (BPSI), whose commitment to psychoanalytic education, training, and collegial exchange continues to create vital spaces for serious clinical thought. We are grateful for their role in making conversations like this possible.

Learn more about BPSI: https://bpsi.org/